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View Poll Results: What is your primary computer?
Desktop 49 68.06%
Laptop 19 26.39%
Netbook 2 2.78%
Smartphone 1 1.39%
Tablet 0 0%
Other 1 1.39%
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Old 03-16-2017, 03:15 PM   #31
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Sadly, a laptop PC with Windows (at work). I have four monitors, and setting up monitors beyond what your video card supports is a pain in Linux. And I work for a company that sells USB display adapters. I have Linux Mint on dual boot on that computer (only two monitors work), and I have another desktop computer just inches away constantly running LMDE that I use for writing scripts and other tasks best suited to a real operating system.

At home, dual boot desktop with Debian and Windows and a two-in-one tablet with keyboard with Windows (too lazy to figure out how install Linux on a 32-bit UEFI).
 
Old 03-16-2017, 05:51 PM   #32
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i tried AMD stuff and ran into "not supported in silicon issues"

i had a cheap chinese motherboard and it was my ONLY linux box that froze hard weekly - all others stayed up until power was removed or at least 6 months

iMac i5 - but it makes talking to linux and XFree86 X11R6 hard: i don't like hard, it does make web browsing easier though (ie, no continual firefox building)

ARM i never tried - however i'm aware there are people making "arm only" stuff and bitching intel support to break intel support

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my favorite

intel motherboard, intel cpu, any video card that isn't a hastle that (linux) likes. always works if bought (so far as i know).

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Old 03-16-2017, 07:31 PM   #33
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Laptops have short lifetimes, are difficult or impossible to repair when they break, and their keyboards are horrid things. I have 25+ working desktops, no working laptops.
 
  


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