[ale] Moving last win box to linux

[Alex Carver]

On 2025-09-13 04:55, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:28:58 -0700
> Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> All I can tell you about the preceding is I wouldn't be caught dead
> using an nVidia video card or GPU or whatever it's called with Linux.
> That's playing Russian Roulette with intermittent freezes and
> spontaneous reboots. This doesn't happen to most people, but it's a
> well known problem and it happened to me. And when it does, it takes
> hours and hours to troubleshoot because nobody suspects a bad video
> card would take down a whole machine.

So you're suggesting an AMD card then?

>> 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.
> 
> I see no reason why your webcam wouldn't be supported, but this is a
> low priority, because brand new and improved USB webcams are available
> cheap. Me: I'm working with a decades old Logitech USB webcam, and it
> works great on Void Linux. Matter of fact, it works better than many
> brand new laptop built-in webcams.

The MX Brio is new, it's about a year or so old. My computer is not a 
laptop so there's no built-in camera, the Brio is USB. I don't want a 
laptop, I want a full desktop machine hence the desire to keep the Brio 
and move it to the new system.