On 10/9/19 8:53 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Actually I did manage to get a laptop, from linuxlaptops, with a spinning HD this year. They do still exist.
That's not what I meant. Almost all laptops still come with spinning drives, but I've been replacing them with SSDs. The laptop drives are so incredibly slow.
I just can't get used to the concept on an expiration date on my storage. I've got rust here that's been spinning for a decade, and I've been banging away it, constantly. Hard. I'm told that even under constant use modern SSDs are rated for at least several decades before they croak. I still have a hard time (pun not intended) accepting that.
I'm not understanding what you mean here. What's wrong with several decades?
And Nvidia's proprietary driver is another thing I'd rather not deal with. it seems that most vendors ship new Nvidia chipsets that x.org lists as not supported. Surprisingly, Dell sells hardware with Radeon cards, but none of the Radeon cards they list have a matching name in x.org's Radeon compatibility chart.
I don't know what list you're looking at, but I think all currently produced AMD chipsets are supported. It's not really X that matters anyway, it's the kernel and mesa.
I'm looking at dual-CPU tower; like I said I need all the cores to compile my stuff. I figure about a $3K price range; and in that range I think I need to do some due diligence, to make sure Fedora will come up on it.
$3K is way overkill. You could get an AMD 16-core with 64GB of RAM for much less than that. And that would even be more than you need. Most build systems are not parallel enough to use that many cores. An 8-core is plenty. Your biggest speed improvement would be that SSD that you don't want to use. And if you're not wanting to play the latest hot games, you can get the cheapest graphics card you can find.
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