When Linux provides so many high-quality operating systems of many varieties free of...? - Quora

[Michael Butash]

My last upgrade was for a few reasons, mostly my mobo was acting up 
(original p65 with failing southbridge), but also wanted pci-e3.0 slots 
for my video that I can never seem to keep happy (my vid was 3.0 running 
in 2.1), more memory, and a faster proc.  It never fails between gaming 
and just general work, I'd cause distress on my system to bog it down, 
so this time I maxed it out with 32gb and a i7-4000k proc to make it 
happier.  For a time (a year), it was good.

Sadly I'm looking at a new mobo and proc again lately, mostly as 32gb 
isn't enough for me, so I'm looking at the new 2011 chipsets that come 
with 8 dimm slots to do 64 or 128gb to solve the memory issue.  Using a 
corp win7 image in a vm with all the crap running on it like av, plus 
all the office suites I do use, I've had it hitting page at 8gb, so 12 
is minimal to keep it happy.  Using linux as my main workstation and 
host, I'll dip over 24gb of normal use, so the dumb windoze image causes 
me oom's, and all hell breaks loose, I lose work/data, ends up a bad 
night in general.

Far more usb3.0 ports was good too.

-mb


On 10/25/2015 08:56 PM, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Sun Oct 25 15, Michael Havens wrote:
>>   why in the world would anyone buy new equipment if they use Linux? 
>> (not
>>   counting laptops---- used laptops suck! Though I did put Linux on 
>> an xp
>>   laptop for a lady I knew when i lived in Cottonwood)
>>
>
> Because it works even better on new hardware, and is able to use
> features that do no exist on older hardware?
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