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stanleyella

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Posted: 12:28am 19 Feb 2026

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Mick, it was installed. after dunno what problems. Bryan1 it's a Dell Inspirion. nice cheap mini pc's. got chromium and vlc and file manager on taskbar. not included.
Initially prefer rpi linux but early days.

Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:06am 19 Feb 2026

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That pic had me going to check on a little one that I have stacked away. Unfortunately I can't join this club, it's an old Zotac.

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Martin H.

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Posted: 03:46pm 19 Feb 2026

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Perhaps a nice alternative for Windows users:
Installing WINUX so you don't have to
UBuntu based KDE Desktop with Windows Style scheme

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Mixtel90

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Posted: 05:18pm 19 Feb 2026

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Pure evil. Lull the poor user into a false sense of security then lose him/her in Linux. I like it. :)

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stanleyella

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Posted: 08:12pm 19 Feb 2026

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like twisteros is not windows but looks familiar.
pc linux mint is not windows but I'm getting used to it.
The pc had win 11 but I broke it. It's things like connect epson printer.

Mixtel90

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Posted: 10:26pm 19 Feb 2026

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That's a big computer by my standards. i5 3.3GHz, 8GB.

This current "poshest" one has a 2GHz 2-core Celeron, but still 8GB of RAM. 128MB (shared RAM) integrated intel graphics. I'm not used to such luxury as Xeon. :)

I tried a recommended drone simulator a couple of weeks ago. Totally unplayable even at absolute minimum quality graphics.

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stanleyella

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Posted: 01:25am 20 Feb 2026

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linux cinnamon is ok after win 11, sort of, does same stuff just different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69bTzddp1sM

Bryan1

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Posted: 01:41am 20 Feb 2026

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Well went to start my shed computer this morning and it wouldn't boot and finally got into the BIOS so I could a HD check which passed and doing a restart just left it for 10 minutes to see if would finally boot which it finally did.

Now one thing I did notice the Ethernet was going rampant in standby mode so one does have wonder was it talking to big brother.

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Posted: 07:56am 20 Feb 2026

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If you're happy with that Dell you might want to add more RAM.

Depends how many things you like on the go at once...

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Posted: 08:20am 20 Feb 2026

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Adding RAM? Are you out of your mind? He'd need a mortgage for that! ;)

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JohnS
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Posted: 08:46am 20 Feb 2026

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Looks not much money for another 8GB.

The existing 8GB will be enough unless wanting lots of browser tabs or building C stuff etc.

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stanleyella

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Posted: 03:49pm 20 Feb 2026

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I think there's only one pci memory slot so I'd need 16G ram module. My other HP mini pc is 2 inch bigger case and has 4 pci ram slots so I upgraded it to 14G with salvaged ram.

Mixtel90

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Posted: 04:17pm 20 Feb 2026

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14GB? Quick, sell it to a AI factory for £1000. :)

I've never seen that much RAM in one place, never mind in one PC. lol I only upgraded from a 4GB machine recently. I haven't got anything other than that old Zotac that can take a graphics card either.

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stanleyella

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Posted: 01:34am 21 Feb 2026

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Mick ttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287153275269?_skw=optiplex+pc&itmmeta=01KHYX1TX8WJ23JGH7AKAMYZ8E&hash=item42dbab4185%3Ag%3AAiQAAeSwDu9pP~Ys&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAAwGfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xCpstzFrNRziscH%2FxxZ5KWxpnioj7YmMjuPzGaUBKRGt0aS%2BsnJKu8et7KBfYAZHBhOV5c2eXpyTBIwcpU2XbCzvGPvnFhb%2FrRWJ9PesRHy8WytL%2BtmX75Gm9%2F8kiooXKzebyptSK0o9Svtoa%2FomgoI%2FQB3pTbBhrRQvs9gBW%2FP5o%2BmxqPHs5Cpf9iFKeQDBQT6KP%2BxTpPOA%2F9a5qH0vjb01%2FJ3vnM0CF4HAqsQYvzBxQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABlBMUO6uh92PZw&var=589167054965

KeepIS

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Posted: 02:08am 21 Feb 2026

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Only need:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287153275269

Nice.

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Bryan1

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Posted: 03:07am 21 Feb 2026

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Mick those two free i7 computers each came with 16G of ram so now got 16G free to sell to AI

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