Looking for advice

[Stephen Weber]

I would recommend buying from a retailer that has physical locations,
something like Best Buy or Microcenter.  That way if something were to go
wrong you can just easily return it within the return period.  Also both of
them offer extended warranty plans on their items.  The one I found from
Best Buy comes with a one year warranty by default.  All the links below
come with three video outputs according to the specs:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/601854/prodesk-600-g1-desktop-computer-(refurbished)
https://www.microcenter.com/product/508824/elitedesk-705-desktop-computer-refurbished
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-refurbished-thinkcentre-m83-desktop-intel-core-i3-4gb-memory-250gb-hard-drive-black/6298359.p?skuId=6298359

As for drivers anything you buy that comes from a professional line of
products (ProDesk, EliteDesk, Lenovo, Dell Optiplex etc..) will have good
Linux driver support out of the box.  However I use a consumer Dell laptop
that has no issues with drivers, so Dell has good Linux drivers even on the
consumer line.  For non-integrated graphics cards that you would buy
separately, I would stick with Nvidia.
For the OS check out Lubuntu or Elementary OS, both I've heard are good at
being lightweight.  Play around with the distros to find the one that best
works on the hardware that you end up getting.

- Stephen



On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 1:42 PM Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to purchase a desktop computer, install Linux (Ubuntu or
> Mint?), and attach two (possibly three) monitors to it. Can anyone here
> provide guidance on what desktop systems and video cards are well supported
> by Linux?
>
> I'm probably going to purchase some refurbished equipment from
> PCLiquidations (https://www.pcliquidations.com/
> <https://www.pcliquidations.com/> ) since I'm on a tight budget.
>
> Until now, I've only had experience with using Linux as a server (mostly
> headless). But I want to get away from MS-Windows and go completely Linux.
> Any advice would be very much appreciated.
>
> -Wes
>
>
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