new computer

[Rusty Carruth]

Which Linux distro?

Personally, 16G RAM is minimal for any 'normal' distribution.

And Dual or Quad core is actually helpful, though not nearly as much as RAM.

Don't put your swap on the SSD.  Put it on a rotator (rotating drive).  
You don't want to risk wearing out the flash on the SSD. And use no more 
than half the SSD space - a quarter is even better (again, limit wear on 
the flash in the SSD).

(What I did was put / on my SSD and /home on a 2TB rotator. on my 
laptop, along with 16G of ram - and i wish I had 32G or more ram!)  I 
should go make sure swap is on the rotator.  Hmm...

On 2/23/24 18:50, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> oh yeah..... solid state drives  and I'll want to use gimp and darktable on
> it.
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 8:46 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want a guy I know to put a computer together for me. I'm thinking a
>> single core (I don't think I need more processing power than that) with 8
>> gig of ram. I'm wanting to spend $3-$400. I'm an older guy now and won't
>> use it for much more than web and email. What should I tell him to put in
>> it?
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>
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