Building a Linux Computer?

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If I were to build a work system today, I would take the following road.

I would go with a laptop with an SSD, at least an i5, an upgraded video 
card like nvidia instead of the video built in the CPU, and I would go 
with something that had decent resolution.

A laptop like this one : 
http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/vostro-15-5000/spd/vostro-15-5568-laptop/cav155w10p18s038

I'd add an external backup drive, an external keyboard, an external 
mouse, and I'd add 2 external flat screen monitors of around 21 inches 
each.

Two of the reasons I moved back to Windows after running Linux Mint for 
4 or 5 years was I was not able to take advantage of the screen share 
utilities such as Go-To-Meetings and I wanted my printer to be plug and 
play so I can use all it's features.

At one point I was running a laptop with one external flat screen.  
Makes a lot of sense, since you are doing everything on one box that is 
also mobile.

And I think moving as much as you can to the cloud is a good thing.

Now this configuration is what fits my needs.  What are your needs?  Are 
you editing images or videos?  Are you a developer? Or are you 
researching Linux, or is your research about external things?

For a simple configuration I'd go with a cheap used laptop with an i3 
and bottom of the line resolution, add and SSD, add Mint, add an 
external backup drive.

I have 3 or 4 of these SSDs and they are on sale : 
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147676

I have two cheap used laptop running these.  Great performance and as I 
recall they have a 5 year warrantee.  I use one as a Linux web server 
for testing.  The other I might use for an experiment. I'd like to load 
Mint on it and see how far I can push the cloud.  I'd like to do 
everything external, using mostly free stuff.  I do some video editing 
so I may need a little more power.





On 2018-05-21 19:30, mike enriquez wrote:
> I am planing to build a Linux computer.  I have Ubuntu 16.0 on an old
> Dell XPS. I will be using it as my research computer.   So "I will be
> going where where others do not dare to go."  I want a VPN on it
> because I have not been able to install a VPN on the computer I now
> have. I want a 64bit OS.
> 
> I know that most people say to use and old computer to run Linux.  I
> need ideas on Hardware to avoid and use.  What would you do if you had
> to build your own Linux computer from scratch?
> 
> Thanks for your input.
> 
> Mike Enriquez
> 
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