What is a good computer for Linux

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:59:08 -0400
Douglas Pollard <dougpol2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   HI all ,  I am getting a bit long in the tooth to still be doing
> video at age 87.  You might take this fact in consideration. I think
> maybe take that into consideration that in giving advice. Last fall I
> bought an HP Gaming computer with windows and had a hell of a battle
> figuring out the Bios to install  Ubuntu  I am Presently doing 1920 x
> 1280 video.   I have always used  Dell boxes and so am familiar with
> the bios. If anyone can offer advice can give advice on a Computer
> with similar bios that is more friendly to Linux I would appreciate
> it.  I have an old optiplex Dell  780 that is getting flaky. I guess
> it could be rebuilt  but not by me. I am not up to that theses days.
> The Hp I am using is a Gaming machine.But maybe I don't need that, I
> guess a machine that will do what I want to do would fast enough. All
> suggestions on a new or rebuilt box would be helpful.
> 
> 

My old Dell XPS with an i5, 8GB ram and linux was a little under
powered to use lightworks for video editing. I didn't want to spend a
fortune on a high end i7 and tons of ram so I bought an "End of Lease"
Lenovo work station with 2 - 8 core Xeon, 128 GB ram and Nvidia Quadro
K5000 graphic card for about 1500$. It was a 2012? model a
years old at the time; but it still had a lot of bang for the buck.
I installed Ubuntu Studio and have been using it for about 5 years now ,
it's not like a Ferrari more like an 18 wheeler nothing slows those 32
threads down. :)