I buy Dell refurbished desktop full-size towers off Amazon. Think the most I’ve paid was about $160. They run 24/7. Have four of them. One is over five years old. Had to replace one hard drive - no problem. I keep backups.
I throw the windows away and load FreeBSD. If you’re not computer-savvy stick with the Windows or load up Linux Mint. Switched wife from windows to Mint and she’s happy with it.
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My main computer is a 2022 OptiPlex bought used from eBay. SFF- Small Form factor. I love OptiPlex because of all the USB A and C ports. I get 2x video out ports too/ Dell computers has been Linux friendly for 20 years. So I guess FreeBSD too.
You can run FreeBSD well with 8GB ram? Mint runs well with 8GB.
My main computer is a 2022 OptiPlex bought used from eBay. SFF- Small Form factor. I love OptiPlex because of all the USB A and C ports. I get 2x video out ports too/ Dell computers has been Linux friendly for 20 years. So I guess FreeBSD too.
You can run FreeBSD well with 8GB ram? Mint runs well with 8GB.
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Couple of 790s and a couple of 9010s. The 790s are 8G RAM, the 9010s are 16G RAM. Doesn’t seem to slow anything down - both run fast.
FreeBSD machine I’m on right now shows 29M active out of 16G. X and Firefox running.
Wife’s mint machine is a 790. Works fine. Right now it’s just sitting, shows 1.9G RAM in use. X is running. I loaded everything on it.
Unix systems don’t have the bloat windows does.
“I buy Dell refurbished desktop full-size towers off Amazon. Think the most I’ve paid was about $160. They run 24/7. Have four of them. One is over five years old. Had to replace one hard drive - no problem. I keep backups.”
I do, too. They’re workhorses, and more stable than the new out-of-the box systems I have. Windows 7, mostly.