[ale] Moving last win box to linux

[Alex Carver]

I've got one Windows 10 box left that I have to use for some 
Windows-only software. It's not upgradable to 11 and at this point I 
don't want Win 11 because of the extra tracking it now does (more than 
10 ever did). I'm going to get the one-year extension to give myself 
some time but I need a few recommendations for building up a new machine 
to be a daily driver. It's been a while since I built up a full, modern 
machine for running Linux. Most of my machines have been older barebones 
hardware with minimal extras.

0. ATX Motherboard with lots of PCIe slots because I have a few extra 
needs like an LSI 9300 SAS board and video card. Don't need RGB 
fancyness, I just need something that can support several cards, holds 
lots of RAM and isn't going to have an issue with a non-Windows OS.

0.1 A motherboard with plenty of slots so I can install several LSI 
9300's to build up a data server. So this one doesn't have to be high 
end since it'll run headless with many spinning drives.

1. Best video card to support multiple Display Port monitors (at least 
three) with Linux support. The current Windows machine has a GeForce GTX 
1660. I'm not playing games but I want good resolution support because I 
do things like CAD.

2. Anyone know of software that would support a Canon LiDE 70 USB 
scanner? I use the scanner a lot and having something like SANE be able 
to support it would be helpful. I don't want to have to buy a new one if 
I can avoid it.

3. Networked all-in-one printer/fax/scanner (Epson WorkForce WF-3620). I 
don't use the printer portion, I mainly use it because the scanner has a 
paper feed. Supporting the scanner portion is useful.

4. Networked HP laser printer (M554). This is a commercial printer not a 
consumer printer so I'm assuming it should be fine with its PCL/PS support.

5. Webcam support. I have a Logitech MX Brio. It works very well and I'd 
like to hang onto it so if it works with something in Linux that would 
be great.