<div dir="auto">Hi Daniel,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pretty much any new hardware (CPU / motherboard / ram) will work, for the video card - NVIDIA and AMD/Radeon are your two big names, both have reasonable out of the box graphics support with Linux these days.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Wouldn't bother trying to get local store techs to assist, they are typically not as technical as they believe themselves to be. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers</div><div dir="auto">/chris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, 1:22 pm Daniel, <<a href="mailto:daniel@iinet.net.au">daniel@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Plug<br>
I’m a keen but low skilled Linux user.<br>
Buying a brand new desktop computer especially for Linux is a challenge because I can’t seem to find a hardware compatibility list that’s up to date nor a Perth pc shop who are Linux aware. <br>
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I was thinking of downloading the new beta of Ubuntu 20.04 and asking a shop if they had any prebuilt desktop computers if they could test them (paying them I guess) but this seems a bit extreme. <br>
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I am thinking of a virtualisation compliant CPU and motherboard with a GPU that can output to a TV (is audio over HDMI a possibility?) as well as a regular screen. <br>
I believe there may be some combinations that work better together for virtualisation ...<br>
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Any suggestions on what to get and where to buy locally? (I need them to build it)<br>
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Any ideas would be a great help<br>
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Thank you <br>
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Daniel <br>
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