Thinking of getting a computer to install Linux on any suggestions?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Are you wanting a desktop or portable solution. Linux can work on a vary large variety of hardware. Laptops are a bit limited in what you can put in them, but are useful when you want to take it with you. Desktops, however, are more versatile as you can add or change hardware as you deem fit. I run an old AMD X2 here with 32 GB of ram and slightly more than 3 TB of onboard storage. The sound system is an older PCIX creative labs sound card with firewire port and spdif 5 channel output as well as analog stereo. The Video is an Nvidia GT 9800 with 16 GB of onboard super fast ram (not that I can see any graphics being totally blind, but it does have other uses). The motherboard is an older TYAAN branded server capable board with SATA, PATA, Serial, USB 2.x and 8 memory slots

I built this system from the ground up in 2008 and used it for hosting several VMWARE instances, including OpenBSD as a firewall, a bridge to the internal lan and even DNS, mail, and other services. All of these were hosted on a Linux Ubuntu installation running the version 3.x kernel. I used the ORCA screen reader almost exclusively with the Gnome desktop. Even though the tech is old, it still out performs much of the newer tech, including my room mates beast of a windows desktop with Core I9 24 cores and DDR4 ram. He still scratches his head at that one. :)

Anyway, let us know some of your preferences and perhaps we can help out with viable suggestions.

-Eric
>From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware maintenance Division 6.


This system is still in operation and I have upgraded the OS through many revisions and also rebuilt the modules for VMWARE server.

> On Apr 29, 2021, at 6:47 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> I am thinking of getting a new computer so that I can work with Linux. Any suggestions on what type of computer I should get or screen reader suggestions?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> 
> Ashley
> 
> 
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