On 5/23/19, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > Always difficult to advise, so many computers, so few recent ones > listed as Linux-compatible.
All Developers can do is wait for Users to write in with thumbs up or down after purchasing new hardware. Otherwise, it's not many folks who can venture into all that exists to have it available for testing at one or two locations. :) > All I can offer is that I've never had > problems with HP business desktops, or Acer portables. But then, I > don't play games (beyond solitaire) so I'm not looking for blazing fast > graphics. MUCH older HP laptop here. Looks like HP Pavilion ze5300. It's the one running Puppy Linux as the hsfmodem dialup modem mothership. And that would be HP's VERY OLD internal modem that is STILL operating FINE, by the way. > Other people swear by Dell, but I've never used one and I've > heard a few stories about them. Mine's handsome. Dell XPS 420. Runs NICE on Debian... when it's running. It's still in need of a new power supply. Intentions are to attempt to find one again tonight. I can't swear 100%, but I THINK it did NOT do Nvidia issues. I remember lsmod'ing while following along with a Debian-User thread one day. Well, I didn't have to fight anything, anyway, if it does do Nvidia. That might be k/t its attached monitor, too, somehow. It came with a stock graphics card (whatever that was that has its own fan) and is attached to something resembling a "Dell 1908FPT" monitor. It's secondhand. Large but not much room left inside for expansion. Basically two hard drives unless you push your luck turning them around sideways or something where they don't belong. Safe (hardware protecting) expansion has to happen outside the box. Everything worked out of the box with a personalized debootstrapped copy of Debian Stretch. That was a copy that was possibly pulled together on this little ASUS 1015px'y netbook.. 'y... then rsync'ed over now that I think on it. No WIFI on the Dell I bought. Watch what you're buying there if you go that route. I can't remember the tech specs of the setback for this laptop, but it's basically a no-go show-stopper these days. Didn't have any luck with the HP's WIFI, either. Most likely would turn out to be for reasons resembling the ASUS if I stubbornly pursued forcing the issue. Ethernet cable to the rescue there.. For wifi, you want what can handle the highest security/encryption, however you go there. Those external USB "dongles" do come fairly cheap if everything else about a computer purchase fits except that... minor little detail that's a pretty hardcore, near almost absolute necessity these days. Dell Inspiron laptop/tablet duo appears to work fine with a Linux operating system (that came along with). Just haven't taken time yet to install Debian, but I anticipate no problems when that day finally comes... One last afterthought.. Toshiba Satellite P25, also OLDER, worked very nicely with Debian. It's a LARGE, HEAVY, SOLID clunker. Purely based on that experience, I've come really close to purchasing newer versions of those a few times. One problem with buying any, either new or old, is to make sure it has ALL the types of AND the quantity of [ports] you think you'll be using. The relatively new Dell "transformer" lacks "basic" ethernet. That's why I'm sitting on pins and needles waiting for those CHEAP wifi dongles to arrive... any second. The alternative is to question: Can you buy adapters that will step up to the plate, instead? For the laptop/tablet combo model, you CAN buy a CHEAP ethernet to USB adapter...... or go wifi... or... ?? :) PS The whole needing USB wifi for some things to work is a shudder-worthy moment that echoes having to do the exact same thing to get dialup access. Wifi's nowhere near as expensive for something that should actually work**, thank goodness! Cindy :) ** Hardware versus software based internal design as a product's working core, yada-yada... -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *