Rixta,
If you wish, feel free to email me off list with any choices you may
be presented by the shop. I've had about thirty years of experience
with hardware issues, and did quite a bit of consulting on the subject
before I retired and moved to Ukraine. I'd be happy to make some
recommendations-
should disagree with any of them! 8:)
My email is dbneeley (at) gmail (dot) com
As for drivers, I really doubt you'll have much of an issue with them.
The messiest is probably video support, and even that is often not a
problem with most of the major vendors' product. Most of the major
distributions come with support for nearly all the devices you are
likely to run into.
Personally, I would suggest if it's practical to do so to set up
several of the potential distribution choices in advance on CD or USB
drives, so once you have the machine in front of you, you'll have a
choice to check out before you make any longer-term decisions. I
happen to like using USB thumb drives for this purpose, and I mostly
use unetbootin to prepare them. There's a version for Windows
machines, and you can either use an ISO image of a live CD version you
may already have or be given, or unetbootin will download the image
and install it for you if you wish. That is at
<http://unetbootin.
Another method might be to have the shop install a version of Linux
for you, which you can then use to experiment with and determine if
you are happy with the distribution loaded or if you want to try
others.
According to what I see on the Net, the hardware available in Oz is
much the same as we have here in Ukraine or that is available in the
U.S., although I suspect that like here the pricing is a little higher
than in the U.S.
Right now, the last generation of CPUs--the Core 2 stuff--is still
around and may be cheaper than the current i3, i5, and i7 series
devices. Even there, though, there are some that are far more capable
than others.
By the way, will you be replacing your monitor as well, or using one
yu have now? The newer monitors are often much higher resolution than
ones that are a few years old--so even if you're to be using an older
one at first, you should be sure your new machine will easily support
the newer, more complex displays. Primarily, this means having
adequate memory on the video card if it has a separate card. It
sounds, though, as if a motherboard with a decent on-board video
device may be more than adequate for what you want, and would save you
a fair amount of money as well. You could always add a separate video
card later should that prove desirable.
David
--- In LINUX_Newbies@
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> I do intend to get my own computer built, at the shop around the corner. I had already planned to get that done six months ago, but health issues postponed things. I will only get Linux on it, saving about $200 for a Windows version I don't want and don't need. I have asked at the shop what a good, basic computer will cost and it's about AUS$500-600, which is really good compared to what you pay at other places. I don't need the top of the top, a basic computer will do for me. My current computer is about eight years old and even with some upgrades it's really out of date, but good enough for me. Just getting too slow.
> Once I get the new one I will just have to start searching for lots of Linux drivers, but I'm sure I can find most of them on special Linux websites. By then I will post lots of messages here with "Help, where can I find this?" LOL
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