Need advice Distro needed, no gaming needed.

Daniel, when did you stop using Windows?

I smell a building party/beerfest cooking.

Wish I wasn't so far away. I'd give my left sumtin' to meet all of you guys *in the flesh*. Beer on me.

I don't have a clear memory of this as like most who know nothing, I've had to keep trying Linux until Linux caught up with my need, I kept being forced back into ms by my ignorance...MS is what I knew how to use.
Gizmo probably has a clearer idea of the timing as it was with his help, REALLY a LOT of help that I ditched MS (NT, I'd been hanging on to it for years!!) and made the finale move to Fedora.

Yet it was to be several more years before I was turned on to Mint...I think it was Mint 11. (Thanks Cliff!!":O}

It wasn't until mint that I considered myself capable of running a Linux OS on my own without much or any help from others with keeping my OS in line.

Gizmo, ThunderRoad, Aedan, Cliff and several others carried me for YEARS helping me through one nervous break down after another. another!!

George this is really about you and what you feel comfortable with. There is an advantage to having someone in a position to "back up" the parts with repair and replacement...warranties.... They do warranty their work?
I built my last box here in Ravensdale about 2 years ago I had no problems getting my parts.
Ravensdale isn't very far.

George my feelings won't be hurt if you rather have a professional job with wires all hidden and everything tucked away...While I try to be neat, that's not what the boxes I build look like. They have wires showing!!! OMG!!!

Like everyone else here I just want to see you with a box your happy with running an OS I'm happy with ":O}


I'm strictly shove it in and see if it works...it has mostly worked for me...mostly.":O}
The real trick lies in ordering parts that really fit well together...That why I suggested a group think on matching parts to your price range and dare I say it...your desire! LOL

I was thinking much the same thing TR.

I may seem strange to you but I spent a silly amount of time trying to imagine what your life might be like.
Your the "exotic one" in our little family ":O}

Yet all of our group's lives are strange to me, even my own....maybe especially my own. I guess thats why I so enjoy hearing about everyone else's doings, The things you do make sense to me and I feel a comradeship and a belonging.

I've spent my life mostly alone with A God I have a ridiculously hard time believing in. And very little "He" does makes sense to me....troubling no? When reason and the heart cannot be reconciled.

Needless to say I've gone in pursuit of my answers. ten thousand times and have yet to come away any the wiser....
or you guys would be the first to know! LOL

To be able to talk to you folks, to receive and on occasion give help...brings me a provisional peace..

Yet...I too long to see us all together in our monkey suits!
and....and...I hear Thai weed is a hell of conversation starter!":O}

Hi George...

you will need considerably less help than I did. Mint 17.3 is considerably easier to use and to understand. It IS desktop Linux in all her glory. Mint was MADE for YOU and Me George. Folks who want a open source OS that simply does what you want it to do without any fussy conventions standing between your and installing your Nvidia card, Mint installs it for you!

Mint Linux is Linux that finally caught up with my needs. I didn't get anymore Linux savey, you can tell that by how many times Gizmo had to install my Nvidia card before Mint and after...
Mint just got better and she consistently keeps getting better.

Gizmo would have Died for Fedora!!
But from reading his posts Mint has slowly seduced him away, NOT Gizmo's fault!

let's face it Fedora proved to a fairless whoe...
well less just say, less devoted to the users needs than she might have been...":O}


OH! My Bear! Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful day! Alas live trapped and remove to near by national forest where she no doubt raises cubs of her own now.

I *very* occasionally get to the west coast. One of my brothers is in San Diego.

It is my absolute intention, and I promise - the next time I do get there, there will be a visit to AZ to meet Brian and Cliff [ccperf], whom I have not heard from in quite a while, and a saunter up north to see George and Daniel.

On my honor.

Just like old times guys! Great to see you all here

Well... Damn TR! Now we all have something to look forward to! ":O}

I'm thinking it was about mid '06. We'd had you playing about with dual boot setups for a while, and I think Fedora Core 6 was when you finally made the jump. Vista was looking to be a mess, the dirty tricks department at MS were more than you could stomach, and Linux was finally getting to a (mostly) usable state for everything other than gaming.

Sounds about right Gizmo. I remember putting two and two together and realizing that Linux plus PS3 equals freedom from MS. Yeah I did really miss computer gaming...But that's why we started GOL!":O}

Cliff! I so ashamed! I remember all Cliff did for me, it was Cliff that turned me on the Mint 11! I just could not remember ccperf's name. Unfortunately forgetting names seems to be happening a lot more than it use to.

Cliff! If your around at all we would love to hear from you! My wife still uses the motherboard and Chip I bought from you lo all those many years ago! Be well Cilff, be here! ":O}

Hi. Like i said I'm a terrible shopper I usually go to New egg or Amazon to price out parts. Does your builder offer itemize parts and pricing or it is a package deal where you only have a few selections you can make( Usually what the builder can get a good deal on, good for you good for him.)

As for spec'ing out a system for compatibility, almost any here can do that better than I can":O}