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1. Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ (dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 18:52:34 UTC Doc Edward Morbius ⭕

   Dear #MastoMind: Good, small, performant, reasonably-priced Linux desktop suggestions?

   Principle uses: browsing, coding, data analysis, some audio/video bits. No gaming.

   Would like to be reasonably future-proofed.

   Looking at Intel's NUC units, something small *and quiet* would be nice. Intel CPUs themselves not so much (Spectre/Meltdown).

   Large and multi-display capable.

   I vastly prefer to avoid Nvidia.

   #desktops #hardware #linux

   • Chthonic Librarian Socialism repeated this.
   • Chthonic Librarian Socialism (syndikalista@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 18:56:20 UTC Chthonic Librarian Socialism

     @dredmorbius i had the question for an older Hackintosh a few weeks back and i found the used HP Prodesk/Elitedesk (Small Form Factor) Office centric line great. It goes cheap on ebay and is kind of solid. Got near the Specs of a NUC (which was my estimated alternative). In the end i`ve got a HP Prodesk G3 i7 "used" for about 200$.

   • Chthonic Librarian Socialism (syndikalista@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2019 20:14:15 UTC Chthonic Librarian Socialism

     • Alexander Bochmann

     @galaxis @dredmorbius I could easily update the Prodesk to 32gb of RAM and one SSD and an mSSD. If I want a GPU I guess it's mostly Nvidia.