[ale] Moving last win box to linux

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:16:51 -0700
Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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?

I think Intel makes some video cards too. Just not nVidia. I've had
great success with my little $80, no fan AMD card for 4 years, but I
don't know what you'll be doing with your card.

> >> 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.

All I'm saying is the portability of the MX Brio is not nearly the
priority that the video card is, because you can buy a brand new webcam
cheap, throw away the Brio, and figure you paid $5 to $10/month to rent
the Brio. That's if worst comes to worst. Probably it will work on
whatever computer you plug it in to.

SteveT

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