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Well. In a major turn of events, we are downsizing our home. My wife and I will be sharing an office space now. So what we are doing is going to have two of the same setups for the new office. Same desk, same chairs same monitor. Different keyboards and pcs. I am going to be keeping my Dell XPS for the foreseeable future to do my work. I am going to get Kelly a new mini PC for her desk. She's going to have the pink Logitech Keyboard and mouse to complement her Logitech mouse pad she already has. I am going to have the "space grey" Logitech setup for my desk. We are both going to get the 40 inch Alogic ultrawides. Hers will be silver and again, mine space gray. I think we are going with large sit/stand desks and good quality chairs. I will have to get a multiple printer, scanner stand for my photo printer and scanner and our Multifunction unit for general duties. Everything is about compacting space to a way more reasonable level. Right now we have two offices and they are both huge. But with that comes insane living expenses. So chopping our house, property and expenses in half will make it way easier for us to retire when we want. If we did stay here, I would be working forever. Moving to the new smaller property we can retire in 10 years and have just basic living expenses.

Forgot to quote so you see it. If you were building a system today what CPU would you use?

Update. The "repair" to outlook lasted 1 day. I had to run repair again this morning. No wonder I am ditching windows and moving to linux. There will be a few growing pains I am sure, but this crap is ridiculous. Microsoft is not even hiding the fact they sell your data to places like McAfee even if you don't have it installed on your system, let alone various 3rd party "companies". NO THANKS MS. GFY!

Yes, I had to go through it with my moms laptop. It's a huge inconvenience. Plus, I am ditching windows for security reasons too. They like scraping your data and sending it to places like McAfee, and other third party bidders. I don't have McAfee on my systems why is my data going to them. NO THANKS. I broke the news to my son who has autism and does not like change that change is coming on his gaming PC. For the better however.

So, I was just reading about the bitlocker bull. So MS holds your pc hostage with bitlocker encryption so if you have to install a new drive, or want to upgrade, the data on your current drive is locked and unable to be read unless you get a passcode from them? that's next level.

I am wondering if anyone knows if I can get the fans to shut up on his MSI cyborg when not gaming? As soon as you power on the laptop they start screaming. Don't kick in performance mode fans. WOW. this laptop is great other than the fan noise.

I have Noctua NH-T2 on all my dells and it dropped temps ALOT. The fans do not kick in near as much now. Works great, easily available and not stupid expensive.

I was having alot of laggy system issues with youtube and my outlook opening like 2 mins after starting it. Did some research. On edge, there is a setting that allows hardware acceleration. That is on by default and caused websites, videos etc to lag, stutter etc. I turned of that hardware acceleration in the Edge browser and everything is as smooth as my linux system now. Happy again. I thought it was something I was going to have to live with, but it fixed and I am happy. For the outlook program taking ages to load. That was fixed by a software update and repair. It's all super fast again now. thankfully!

If you were building a PC today. What would you use?

At this point in time, moving to MacOS is no better. Both are basically spyware now. Apple claims security and privacy are number one in their OS but it's quite the opposite. I would push towards a good linux distro.

As an aside to that, I hope hypersync is available in software for linux.

I am waiting to see what the 770 brings to the table for creative work. Supposedly hypersync is awesome for video editing.

My family is moving away from MS and Apple. We will be using a combination of Zorin and Garuda. Unless I can get the gaming emulators and games in garuda on Zorin I may go that route as well. I am looking for a few forums where I can ask questions, get some ideas and tips for getting our linux systems up and running. It's time, between Microsoft making deals with "Space Karen" and Apple spying, ripping off and having unsecure platforms, It's time to embrace the Open Source where what I own is MINE, not rented trash.

Recall is completely disable'able as well.

So, in theory, it should be the same as zorin to use since it's all GUI now. I am new to linux. I am loving Zorin on this little laptop that is replacing my iPad. I have some issues with waydroid and apps accessing the network and Bluetooth. This week I will be getting that sorted. But it's better at being a PC than the iPad while being about 90 percent as good as being a tablet as the iPad. Win win for me.

Agree. The dumbest concept ever. Besides, windows already watches and records everything you do on your system. WHY give bad people easy access to this. Oh, btw. Gone to linux, FCK M$. ha ha. I am on linux right now and it's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than windows 11. I currently have it on my old dell 3169 with M3 processor 4gb of ram and 615 graphics and its WAY faster than my 1165g7 with 64gb of ram on windows 11. I went and put both systems on desktop with the system monitors up. My linux system 1-2 percent cpu, 1gb of ram and no network processes. On my win 11 laptop on desktop 30-40% cpu useage, 11.3gb of ram being used and lots and lots of network access spikes. What the FK is MS doing behind the scenes? Time to remove them from all my systems. It will take my wife and son a few days to acclimate to Linux, but they will love it after as it's SUPER fast and secure. No spying.

You have the right mind set. Push to recover fast, and then make sure you live the best life. Do the shit! don't dream about it. Thats what I am doing. I have to go have 2ft of my colon removed next month. I am going to be out of commision for 2 - 6 month depending on how everything goes. After that look out. I am going to be hitting the gym, travelling and enjoying my family until I am tossed in the oven ( I don't want to be buried). Go for everything brother!

Is acquiring something for free still a "purchase"? If so, I "purchased" this. Garuda Linux | Downloads Going to create the install USB this week. I got really sick over the weekend and never got to get it set up. 15% faster video editing in Davinci Resolve vs windows on the same machine is nothing to sneeze at. Linux for the win. Thats like installing a 2 generation newer video card into my current system just by swapping OS.

So does microsoft. SURFACE PC.

Oh, what about the gaming emulators. How easy are they to use?

Ok. perfect. I was reading about Arch and all the "fiddling" that was needed. I guess garuda fixed that so it can be used by the non techie.

How is garuda to use? mostly the same as other distros? I have used mint a long time ago and zorin recently. I love the visuals of garuda dragonized. Just something about it that speaks to me.

We as a family are all moving to linux slowly as well. I am going to be running garuda on my workstation and laptop, I think I am using it on my sons gaming laptop as well but with the extra gaming distro, and the wife will more than likely like Zorin for her system. The beauty of linux. There are so many flavors you can just pick the one that you like and your off! It all works great now.

Well, I really want something that will work like onedrive but hosted locally but accessible via the interweb. LIke, when I take a photo with my phone, it snycs to my NAS, wherever I am. Just for one example.

I want to move from Onedrive services to hosting my own server which I can access from anywhere on my pc and android deivces. What are the best free options?