On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to > figure out what to do. > > When i got my last hardware, one challenge was UEFI booting, iirc. After > dealing with it, i sort of lost track of what was happening in that arena. > However, i don't want to get involved with that again. > > I'm sort of thinking about getting a Dell Inspiron but maybe i should buy > from a linux vendor instead, such as 76? Presumably at least in that case > at least i wouldn't have to worry about the bios. > > I certainly would want to get something which supported 2 or 3 internal > disks, but i would also like to get something that could be booted from an > external usb drive. Does that make sense? > > Would it make sense to look for something where all usb ports are usb > 3.0? I've never used usb 3.0 at home, so i'm kind of unclued. > > In a way, i'd like to have something with 2 ethernet ports on the > motherboard, although i've found that usb-to-ethernet is adequate for my > purposes. > > And i think i'd like to stick with debian, but i would consider any free > OS. (So if i bought a Dell, i would add a disk drive or two, and boot off > the debian disk, probably removing the windows disk.) > > I'd appreciate any pointers or recommendations. >
And i forgot to add that i would like to be able to easily run qemu or other virtual machines. How would that affect the choice of processor, amount of memory, and disks? TIA! dan