What is a good computer for Linux

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

On 14/09/2021 09:00, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> 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 box is a good one for Linux, bought it of a Linux provider
https://www.linuxnow.com.au/ that way all the hardware worked out of the
box, good choice of distro's too, I have updated but never needed to
reinstall at all
> 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. :)
>
>
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