Re: Hardware Suggestions for Desktop Fedora

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Some things you might want to know:
1. When you boot windows on the real HW, it creates a HW profile, let's name it X. 2. When you configure the windows partition (Under Linux) to be a drive for a VBox VM, and you boot that machine, then windows will detect that it is running on different HW than original HW profile, and will ask for a different installation key, else it will
   declare your windows under VBOx VM to be an illegal copy.

That's what happened to me and other colleagues.


On 08/14/2016 02:14 PM, Drew Samson wrote:
Hello,

I've been using Fedora inside Virtual Box on a Windows 7 host for a few years now so I can learn Fedora / Linux before taking the plunge and unplug from Windows more permanently. I think I'm ready to take the plunge and build a new desktop with Fedora 24 being my primary os and at most run Windows (should I need it for some reason) inside a VBox vm. I suspect running Fedora inside a vm is really different than running it right off the hardware like changing a hdd controller with a mouse click is much faster & easier than swapping a cable and/or setting or adding an adapter so I'm trying to do my homework before spending $.

My question is: what hardware would someone recommend for building a non-gaming high-end desktop? About the only non-negotiable element are my 2 30" dell u3011 monitors both running at 2560x1600. Since I'm a day-trader I need really good color & resolution for my trading charts but things like a high frame rate for gaming are not necessary. I have no amd / intel cpu preference - just 8 cores preferably and probably 4 ram slots on a mb since I don't want less than 32gb ram. Recently I saw someone indicate nvidia graphics are not linux friendly and since that's what I've always used on my builds an alternative is needed. I've had really good results with Gigabyte mb's but am willing to try another brand. I'd also like to use an ssd hdd so does Fedora support sata3 or even sata 3.2 well? Am I correct in thinking ddr3 or ddr4 or ram specs of any kind (latency) are pretty much irrelevant and Fedora would support all such hardware? Does Fedora have issues with hardware raid which I usually use? Does Fedora care about 3 or 4 channel ram configuration? Not being a gamer I don't use SLI but since we're on the subject about compatible hw...does Fedora / linux / open-source have any capable sli graphics cards which work well and easily?

If someone has built an entire system like this recently would you be willing to share your component build list? Or if you have a graphics card which installed easily and would support my resolutions would you mind sharing it? If someone was frustrated with a particular component would you mind sharing what to steer clear of?

I would prefer to avoid the click & pray approach to component selection so I'm asking what has worked well for others...or what was problematic.

Thanks for any advice & feedback.

Drew


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