Barry Now we can switch the thread to distro wars! I like Ubuntu for the desktop. Cheers -- Rick On December 9, 2018 3:50:11 PM EST, Barry McLarnon <bm [ at ] topazdesigns [ dot ] com> wrote: >Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on where to acquire >hardware. Since I don't need portability and am leery of buying used >gear, I got quotes on a custom OS-less desktop system from Canada >Computers and RB Computing. In the end, I opted to go with RB for a >number of reasons, not the least of which is that I've dealt with them >before - that's where I bought my current system than I want to >mothball, nine years ago this month. For some reason I had the >impression that RB had disappeared, but it turns out that they're still > >very much alive and kicking. I splurged a bit on a 1TB SDD, but the >system is otherwise pretty vanilla (Asus ATX mobo w/i5-8600 cpu & 8GB >DDR4 ram, and an HDD for mirroring). When I get it this coming week, >I'll see how openSUSE Tumbleweed rolls along on it. > >Barry > >-- >Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON > > >To unsubscribe send a blank message to >linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com