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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:13:02 -0400
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On 3/20/24 5:46 AM, vallor wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:36:53 -0400, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
> wrote in <utcpgl$10gjc$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> And who sells hardware with Linux OS preinstalled out of the box? That
>> alone takes some searching for the retailers, so that's even more touch
>> labor time spent.
> 
> If only there were some kind of global database that
> one could query for such information...
> 
> BTW, what hh really wants in a Linux system is something
> running ChromeOS.  You telling me he can't find a Chromebook?


I've found that the off-the-box ChromeOS solutions have been pretty 
lightweight on hardware specifications.


> (Not to mention the offerings by System76, as well as Dell.)

And HP.  They've offered some decent towers with Ubuntu, but there's 
still then the DIY search for Apps.


> Oh, you'd better go to a Linux vendor, though -- otherwise, you'll
> spend "hours and hours" to "make it work".
> 
> Right?  Anybody else have that experience?  "hours and hours"?

Let's not forget how DFS has frequently ribbed chrisv about how chrisv 
had refused to show spending the time to optimize a build on NewEgg 
because it would take too many hours...think it was part of the "more 
choices are always better" which backfired on chrisv due to it being a 
clear example of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do.


> BTW, this Linux workstation (bought "turnkey") blows the doors
> off Mrs. vallor's new Mac Studio.  

And this turnkey is ... what?  And what came pre-installed and are you 
still using the same?

> My benchmark:  running Foocus,
> which uses pytorch, which is apparently not well-supported
> on the Mac Studio.  Maybe someday...

Different tools for different jobs...

....and yet quite ironic that even Mrs. Vallor chose to buy Apple, 
despite having an in-house Linux IT family member expert support.


-hh