On 7/7/2025 3:48 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM home user via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Good morning,
I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d.
Linux
distro) workstation. I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web
sites
that are a good help in comparing and choosing (not actually buying)
workstation hardware (monitors, speakers, GPUs, sound cards, CPUs,
memory, drives, power supplies, towers, trackballs, keyboards,
optical
drives, and so on). I haven't yet found any really good web sites
for
this. I need web sites that are:
* authoritative;
* complete;
* correct;
* current;
* independent;
* objective; and
* relevant.
ok.
Now that you're done laughing....
I realize no web site can perfectly satisfy all of the above. But
which
come closest? It would help if they could both sort and filter. For
example, I'd like to be able to sort monitors by how large of a color
gamut they can display. I'd like to be able to filter both
positively
(show me only optical drives that can both write and read M-DISC) and
negatively (do not show wi-fi only trackballs).
What web sites do you recommend?
Once you have a short list of components, you can use
linux-hardware.org <http://linux-hardware.org> to
see if they are widely used on linux. Sometimes there will be user
comments
detailing issues and maybe solutions.
Thank-you, George. I was referred to that website before, some time
ago, for some other reason. Or maybe that website was shared with
someone else on this list. I had lost the URL and was wanting to
recover it.
But that is a future step.
1. At this point, I need to start with specs and find what makes and
models satisfy those specs.
2. Then I narrow the choices down by considering how components fit
(work) together.
3. The final step is looking for the best sellers (b & h, amazon,
newegg, microcenter, and so on).
"hardware.org" and "pcpartpicker.com" look like they could be good helps
for steps 2 and 3.
I'm looking for the monitor first. Key requirement: at least as good in
*** a-l-l ***
respects as the 12-year-old Dell U2711 that I'm using now. Most important:
* displays color gamut at least 99% of the P3 color gamut, preferably
significantly more.
* screen "real estate" about the same.
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