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Do you plan to buy a prebuilt machine, or is this going to be a self-build? With a self-build you get exactly what you want at a price to suit your pocket, and you can buy kit which (you can research beforehand) you know will work with Linux :) The downside is obvious.
Ah yes, I have felt the presence of the downside, which is why I paid to have a machine built, and thankfully I bought an on-site guarantee with it. This was duly built and supplied, but has persistently failed to work despite repeated attention of one sort or another. Recently I started using the word "refund", since when "company X" have offered to rebuild the machine to a new, superior spec. rather than lose my custom, hence my question. I wanted (still want) an upgradeable machine capable of running modern games under windows (my son of course, ahem), manipulating largish audio/video files, that I could dual boot for internet, email, mp3 encoding and playback, sokoban and general LAMP fun and games.
Either way, to start you off I would recommend Nvidia as the graphics card choice. Although I'm sure others will have found ATI to work adequately, I found my old ATI card to be a nightmare, whereas Nvidia provide (via download) a Universal driver that will run all the modern Nvidia cards in (their website claims) all versions of Linux. :) Also Nvidia motherboards have a driver set you can download specifically for Linux too.
Thanks, thats just the sort of information I seek. Any other pointers gratefully received. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.