I'll throw a +1 for this idea. The sorts of things you're looking to do aren't particularly intensive, so you don't need anything high powered. For some projects at home, I've been looking at getting older refurb desktops, like a Lenovo M83 or HP 8030, something with an i5-4570 or 4590, and 8G of RAM. If it comes with an SSD great but new small ones ~120G are only $25 or so, so it's cheap to slap your own in and do an install. These machines are fairly plentiful (old office desktops) and you can find them pretty inexpensively. For example I'm watching 2 on Facebook marketplace right now at $100 and $120. fwiw, I need some GPU power as well, so was going to get an NVidia 1650 LP to put in there, but for your list of things the built-in graphics should be fine.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 11:34 Richard Klein via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
My last few computers have been used Dell or HP workstations, mostly off-lease from a couple ebay sellers I have experience with.  One was from a WPI student off craigslist.  They all do great with Linux and I've had no regrets.

A couple ebay sellers I've had good luck with:

-- 
Rich

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:48 AM THE HAMMER via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I want to consider getting a new desktop computer.  Can anyone advise me as to a specific model and place to purchase from?  It's been a long time since I've bought new.

I would be using it mostly for emails, a few general apts (like music streams and libre office), and a bit of amateur coding.  I am not a gamer. 

If it is a windows machine, I'd like to load on a linux based os

Suggestions?

Ron


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