My email provider had this and the thread's OP in its "known" SPAM folder. :p
home user composed on 2025-07-07 15:53 (UTC-0600): > On 2025-07-07 16:29 -0000, home user wrote: >> 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? > To see examples of what I'm looking for, see this web page: > "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_providers";. > Notice it's organized into tables, all sortable. > I need something like this for monitors, speakers, GPUs, and so on. I doubt anything with more than a small fraction of your list ever did or ever will exist. It would be a dream come true. I think the closest you'll come is the results from: <https://www.google.com/search?q=pc+hardware+reviews&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8> That said, it seems to me pretty much anything that was RTM at least 10 or so or more months ago is covered by FOSS, subject to bugs that either haven't been reported yet, or bugs that just haven't been known about long enough to get fixes through QA yet. The keys then are the CPU and/or GPU's announced release date(s), possibly a little longer for AMD than for Intel for CPUs, and the reverse for GPUs. FWIW, most of what hardware I buy new comes from Newegg, where I do read reviews. I have bought a fair amount used, both off of eBay, and as "refurb" off of Newegg. My luck with displays has been better buying refurbs. Only new Dell display I ever bought was in 2017, and barely lived beyond its warranty, after having had to have it replaced within 30 days of original purchase. OTOH, only two out of about 10 Dell flat screens I ever bought used gave up the ghost, with two 16:10s in constant use currently at age 12, along with one Samsung 16:10 13 and one NEC 16:10 14, plus a 2K 16:9 Acer bought new, age 7. All in current use were selected in very large part because they feature DisplayPort inputs, but also each has 2 or more others, VGA and/or DVI and/or HDMI. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
