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How to Build a New PC For Linux
maketecheasier ^ | 12 April 2022 | Ramces Red

Posted on 04/15/2022 5:45:53 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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To: Dalberg-Acton
I have a GeForce RTX 2060 and it works fine on Linux Mint.

. Ya it works. I have a GeForce GT 630, and it works fine, but even with the proprietary blob driver, I don't think you get the full benefit of the GPUs.

21 posted on 04/15/2022 10:31:36 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: gitmo

And it is policed EXREMELY well. The Linux community is right on top of shutting down any submissions such as apps with malicious coding before it ever gets any further or available. This preview of code would not be possible without it being opensource.


22 posted on 04/15/2022 10:36:33 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: TomGuy
Now, my boot-up is about 12 seconds. Previously, it seemed to take well over a minute. It is surprising how much faster an SSD boot drive is.

Boot time is a red herring IMO. I really don't care how long it takes for my desktop to boot, since a reboot only happens about once a quarter, or often longer than that. On this computer, I keep the kernel pretty current, since it is my main box, hence the quarterly reboots. My media player, though, will run for hundreds of days without rebooting, because that box is fairly isolated from a network perspective. What do I care if it takes 5 minutes(it is considerably less) if it's something I only have to worry about once or twice a year?

23 posted on 04/15/2022 10:37:38 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

Very good explanation. The executable situation is huge.


24 posted on 04/15/2022 10:43:03 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: zeugma

“Boot time is a red herring IMO. I really don’t care how long it takes for my desktop to boot”

Same here, but I have never had a Linux box take as long as a Windows box to boot. I just go get another up of coffee while my box boots and it is ready when I get back.

No need to wait.. Multitask...


25 posted on 04/15/2022 10:51:07 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: dhs12345
New PC? Linux distributions support a lot of very old software. Why buy new when you don't have to?

Exactly correct!! My 12+ year old AMD FX-8350 is running the latest version of Ubuntu Linux with Linux Kernel 5.17 installed.

An older SSD drive for the OS, WiFi, Bluetooth and an NVIDIA Graphics card that's at least 5 years old for video.

In short: it screams. It has 32Gb of memory and 10TB of storage attached to it that I used for backups from my other machines.

Old hardware with Linux is typically just fine!

26 posted on 04/15/2022 10:57:31 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: dhs12345
Linux distributions support a lot of very old software. Why buy new when you don't have to?

Forgot to add to my last post:

My old Webcam that Windows no longer supports? Works fine on Linux.

My Lexmark Wireless Printer that stopped working with Windows 10? My Ubuntu Linux picked it up wirelessly and works with it just fine too!

It's funny how all the devices that no longer worked with Windows 10 I had laying around work just fine with Linux and all I had to do was plug them in and turn them on. Go figure!

Oh! My NAS Storage? Linux picked that up too and just started using it without much effort by me at all. My Windows 10 VM? BLEEEHHHHH! Refused to work with it.

Unless you *have* to run Windows for work, Linux for home is the way to go. Don't have to worry about viruses, malware, any of that crap.

Easier to install than Windows too!

27 posted on 04/15/2022 11:01:18 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: zeugma; gitmo; ShadowAce

Back in the Windows95 days, Microsoft made the incomprehensibly daft decision that the “Active Desktop” would be a good idea. In and of itself, it wasn’t such a bad plan, but it was the way it was done. It was partly because Gates wanted to destroy Netscape, so MS integrated Internet Explorer on Windows’ desktop - EVERYTHING ran through IE. And the way MS made that happen was by merging the shell with Internet Explorer. The abominable mshtml.dll (and a couple of other pieces of kit) was born, with the resulting graphical shell. Windows can NEVER be made as secure as Linux since Windows’ is permanently crippled with its graphical shell.
Linux has always kept the shell separate with the X-windows (or whichever) system being an “add-on”, which means Linux can be run headless without any graphical component. 100% pure CLI.
Hence, the design of Linux is inherently more secure out-of-the-box than Windows can be made, no matter how much anti-virus/malware/etc. kit you cobble onto it.


28 posted on 04/16/2022 5:52:16 AM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

“I wonder how many Twitter employees had to drive their Tesla to work this morning?”

You means the ones who didn’t stay home and work remotely through their Starlink connection?


29 posted on 04/16/2022 10:01:59 AM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: usconservative
Planned obsolescence. Some cool stuff too.

I use Ubuntu. Try to stay away from the exotic distributions since I am familiar with Ubuntu and it seems to be well supported for both the desktop and server.

Ubuntu is now running on the Raspberry Pi (sort of). It is still a little clunky but I am expecting that it will be more reliable in the future.

1. I am using it right now in a Windows VM as I post this this message. It is secure and private and is safe from prying eyes. Remember that big tech collect your personal information. Also, it is easy to kill the installation and then reinstall it in the virtual software.

2. I have installed it on two computers as music servers that run 24/7 to our home network. Any device on my network can play our music library.

3. I have created an email server that is designed for family and friends communication if/when big tech starts censor my speech. It works really well and is free other than the hours I spent getting it running. It is encrypted from prying eyes. We have learned in recent years that big tech and big government was to regulate speech and it will only get worse.

I think that they still offer a 32bit version for really old computers. I installed it on 15 year old laptop and it ran fine until the laptop finally gave up the ghost.

Lastly, I think that I am due to make a donation. I have certainly benefited from “free” Linux.

30 posted on 04/16/2022 11:21:29 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: gitmo
Well “open source” Linux versus closed source like Apple/Windows. Everyone (smarter people than I and maybe twice as paranoid) can look under the Linux hood and see the inter workings and if there is something nefarious going on. Whereas, with Apple and probably MS Windows we have no way of knowing what they are doing with our data. As a matter of fact, there is a darn good chance that they are are logging everything that you do — tracking location, your communication, your files on your computers, etc.

Is Linux perfect? No. And Android is not foolproof because it is a bastardized version. But iOS is worse... because it is very closed.

This guy is a good resource. He has a lot to say about privacy and security.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVU6rModlGxvJbszCclGGw/videos

31 posted on 04/16/2022 11:36:17 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: usconservative

And as Big Tech obseletes your hardware forcing you to buy new every three years, you can still have a functional computer that is more secure.


32 posted on 04/16/2022 11:37:51 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345
I've been on Ubuntu exclusively for at least 4 years now. Kicked Microsoft out of my house. I do have a Windows 10 VM that I use for my amateur radio logging software, JT-65 and FT8 comms as well as control plane software for my ham radio gear.

My work issued laptop is Windows 10. Hate it. Hate everything about it. I'd designed and engineered a Cloud VPN solution using Microsoft Azure and included Active Directory w/Ubuntu integration. So I can login to our brand spanking new Azure Cloud VPN implementation using my own Ubuntu desktop, authenticate with Active Direcotory and 2FA and do my work now. I use Outlook Web Access for email, O365 Web Based for work and when I have to create engineering diagrams I use Draw.IO

I'd like to send my work laptop back but they won't let me. LOL!

I agree that Ubuntu is the best supported and most reliable version available, I don't think I care that I'm not always on the latest and greatest Kernel. I'm ok being -1 on the Kernel and am willing to sacrifice for stability.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I've been wanting to get Ubuntu onto. It's sitting within arms reach as I type, I'll probably get to that this week ... then I've been saying that for about a year or so now, so time to do it.

33 posted on 04/16/2022 12:14:21 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: ShadowAce

I have a mid-2011 MacBook Pro that Apple has long since stopped supporting.

It’s so old that it doesn’t do Airdrop well, nor will it connect with more than one HomePod at a time.

I’ve used a back-door patch to upgrade the OS to Catalina, but even that isn’t perfect.

I’m *this close * to turning that MacBook into a Linux mint box. All indications are that critical functions are supported.


34 posted on 04/16/2022 3:32:45 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ShadowAce

Don’t forget to add a Turbo button.


35 posted on 04/16/2022 3:35:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: usconservative
Very cool! Everything that you can do on an old computer running Linux, can be done in a Cloud provider like Amazon. You can create your own VPN (as you have done), email server, etc. and I think that it is cheap or not that expensive depending on the amount of resources that you need.

I still like having a server running on a local machine since I control it versus some mega company who may decide to shut it down.

Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi... Everything seemed to install okay then when I tried to do a Dovecot update it failed. I didn't have time to debug it and ran out of time. I believe that it is still very new so maybe in a few months it will work. Also, the RP hardware is not the most stable -- the micro SD card. Plus the SD card has to be formatted for FAT32. Not really a problem I guess and there are work arounds. I wonder if they make a version with the flash memory soldered to the board? Anyway, the Raspberry Pi is probably more suited for the hobbyist but the possibility of being able to install a fully functional OS on a small device like it is pretty cool.

36 posted on 04/16/2022 4:39:57 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: beef

“You means the ones who didn’t stay home and work remotely through their Starlink connection? “

:)

And the confident and enthusiastic board of Directors who hold an impressive 77 shares of Twitter in total!


37 posted on 04/16/2022 7:25:29 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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