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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help with recommended budget for hardware
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:20:04 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vppsak$46r$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 96de22955d2d1852f423c349d7ca5e80@paraboletancza.org

On 2025-02-20, whiteman808@paraboletancza.org <whiteman808@paraboletancza.org> wrote:

> I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money 
> should I spend on it.
>
> To clarify, I'll tell more for what I'm going to use PC:
> * computer will be mostly used for programming in languages like C, C++, 
> sysadmin, and testing stuff in the LXC, Docker containers, virtual 
> machines,

For general programming work, you can use any old PC that a Windows
user has thrown in the trash.  Though if you want to run a lot of
docker containers or VMs, you might want to add some RAM.

> * I'll program mainly desktop applications using ncurses, wxWidgets, and 
> embedded,
> * I'm completely not interested in doing computer graphics nor gaming 
> (either playing games and creating),

Then just about anything will work.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-27 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-20 19:18 [gentoo-user] Need help with recommended budget for hardware whiteman808
2025-02-27 11:31 ` Michael
2025-02-27 19:12   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-28  0:17     ` Michael
2025-02-27 14:20 ` Grant Edwards [this message]

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