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Originally Posted by rcentros
... a new computer from Best Buy. I know I wouldn't buy one from a retail store.
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You can buy a good computer in BestBuy, for a good price. You just have to watch the sale shelves like a hawk and view each sale with a very critical eye. Once a month there might be an interesting sale.
The vast majority of sales are good only when compared with the other deals in that store.
I personally would put together something using newegg.
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
I never understood why people hate it so deeply that they reject Windows 8.x altogether.
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I am one of those people that hated the metro tiles with a passion. I could get over metro tiles themselves (even if they are not hierarchical). Part of the reason was it was rammed down our collective throats despite loud protests.
It was the rest of the system that was the last straw and made me to update to Mint Linux.
I have no problem to adapting to new and strange environments. I worked in CDE in Unix, Photon in QNX, now very obsolete strange Window Managers in Linux 15 years ago. Yet I hated Unity, Gnome 3, KDE 4.0 wit a passion. All those forced me to migrate to something else.
And I still strongly dislike the ribbon interface in Office, even after being forced to use that thing for quite a long time.
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
This notion that my computer's hardware isn't sufficient to run the latest versions of Sigil and Calibre and QT5. Is this for absolute certain?
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No. It is not certain. You have to try.
You already have the computer with Linux installed, so why don't you try running Calibre and Sigil?
They worst thing that can happen is that they will not work and you come back with an error message and ask for help.