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Let me show you my latest desktop build:
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Surprised?
My wife's old XP machine finally died. Thankfully!
The case and power supply (420 W) are in awesome shape. They should be. It was a replacement case that we used to transplant the guts out of the old case a number of years ago.
Got the case, got the power supply. I already had 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive setting around in surplus. So all I needed was:
* GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S1 LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - About $40 after mail-in rebate.
* Intel Pentium G2020 Ivy Bridge 2.9GHz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics - $68
* SAMSUNG DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA - $20
The most expensive part of the build...
You guessed it!
* Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM - $100
Why? Because I could. And because sometimes we still need a Windows machine for work to run certain software that will not run on Linux, in WINE, or in VirtualBox.
But in my defense, I went the cheapest, best route I could find.
And just to appease Richard Stallman who would stand before an audience and ask, "Show of hands, please. How many of you have pirated software on your computers?" I have none. Every software package is either OEM or legitimately licensed to me.
To keep score: I have six Linux machines to one Windows 7 (and it is 7) computer. I'm not one of those Microsoft haters (nor am I a fan), and I'm certainly not one of the snobby Linux elitists who insist that you call it "GNU/Linux."
Sphere 1 icons, cairo dock, gkrellm
View attachment 1463 Well here's my desktop
I'm sure you can figure out what I'm running from the desktop, the menu applet is the "Stark" menu in Cinna-minna-mon. I can't get the name where the penguin is to use a dark font. If anyone has the answer, I would appreciate it. I'll be damned if I can find the line in the code which has it. The conky was fun to configure. It will do anything I want it to. Very handy to have. But I'm not sold on the weather apps. Can't get it to get any weather even after I find the code from the site. Oh well. This one desklet is actually the best I've used so far.
Well I have recently abandoned Arch, Slack because I got tired of using them. So I switched over to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. As you can see I don't like anything fancy. Unity is bleh Gnome 3 is bleh. Everything else beyond is bleh. So I'm just using good old gnome classic.
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Mate Desktop with cairo-dock on Debian Wheezy. I like clean screen.
Let me show you my latest desktop build:
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Surprised?
My wife's old XP machine finally died. Thankfully!
The case and power supply (420 W) are in awesome shape. They should be. It was a replacement case that we used to transplant the guts out of the old case a number of years ago.
Got the case, got the power supply. I already had 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive setting around in surplus. So all I needed was:
* GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S1 LGA 1155 Intel H61 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - About $40 after mail-in rebate.
* Intel Pentium G2020 Ivy Bridge 2.9GHz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics - $68
* SAMSUNG DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM SATA - $20
The most expensive part of the build...
You guessed it!
* Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM - $100
Why? Because I could. And because sometimes we still need a Windows machine for work to run certain software that will not run on Linux, in WINE, or in VirtualBox.
But in my defense, I went the cheapest, best route I could find.
And just to appease Richard Stallman who would stand before an audience and ask, "Show of hands, please. How many of you have pirated software on your computers?" I have none. Every software package is either OEM or legitimately licensed to me.
To keep score: I have six Linux machines to one Windows 7 (and it is 7) computer. I'm not one of those Microsoft haters (nor am I a fan), and I'm certainly not one of the snobby Linux elitists who insist that you call it "GNU/Linux."
Ubuntu minimal running openbox with a custom lxpanel. Wallpaper made in gimp...
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