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To: Viking2002

I have 3 Dell Optiplex 780s [one for each of two locations and a spare] that have been updated with SSDs [they were surplus hospital data entry devices sold at ~$15 w/o a HD].

All running Linux and are able to surf just fine @ 1920x1080.


11 posted on 06/21/2021 10:39:27 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Paladin2
Ha. I have an eight year old Asus minitower under me running Linux Mint. Not fully configured yet, but it's on the net and purrs like a kitten. Always keep secondary and tertiary units up and running if that's what it calls for. I like Mint. I go back to the days when you had to manually load CD's, do the partitioning and command line install, and scrounge for drivers if you wanted a Linux box. With Mint, I created a bootable USB drive with RUFUS, targeted the OS download, and created a thumb drive that did all the heavy lifting for me. Even found the printer on the wifi and loaded a generic, HP-compatible print suite for me. The biggest thing I've been sandbagging on is transferring all of my profile data over to it.

Yup. I was a 20 year IT grunt. Got the certs and scars to show for it, too.

15 posted on 06/22/2021 1:18:56 AM PDT by Viking2002 (Remember, all the world’s a barstool.)
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