Amateur IT and DIY activities

This was my primary Windows machine for a while but changing circumstances mean that I now have an Asus gaming laptop. Specs It's not a hugely powerful machine. AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Nvidia GeForce RT710 graphics card Corsair Force MP600 500GB Corsair VENGEANCE LPX 32GB RAM 2TB Seagate HDD Aerocool Integrator 600W PSU In hindsight, there are better motherboard choices than the MSI X570-A PRO . It only has one HDMI port on the rear panel. Whilst it is possible to use additional monitors with via USB-C, it's not as convenient as having built in ports. That RT710 is low end. Its purpose is to add more video outs for undemanding applications.  32GB of RAM is more than most people will need. A lot of modern machines only come with 8GB. 16Gb is recommended by many. An additional two 8GB DIMMs didn't want to work with it. Possibly a BIOS issue. The 2TB HDD is probably going to be moved to a NAS to consolidate HDD storage. The thinking was that didn't want to clog up SSD with files...

I had intended this machine to form the basis of a powerful NAS but decided to use it as my primary Linux desktop. One reason for this is for conducting audio-visual experiments. Another is the realisation that second user server hardware vs PC has better PCIe expansion possibilities if you want to add lots of storage controllers. Specs Intel Core i-3 9100 MSI  Z390-A PRO motherboard Two x 8GB DDR4 DIMMs Crucial P3 1TB   SATA SSD Gigabyte GV-N2100C Geforce GT210 graphics card Sunix MIO5469A serial and parallel card The graphics cards is mostly about supporting multiple monitors. There are plans to do budget monitor upgrade but have to work with what there is for now, especially LCD TVs.  The Sunix card was purchased with installing OpenWRT on old wifi routers in mind.  Case It is built in an old Evesham case primary Windows desktop machine used to live in. It's pre-2008 and a pretty ugly case.  Old cases can have a certain funky charm (this one doesn't...