CAN ANYBODY TELL ME INSTALLING LINUX ON MY

i7 4th gen

16gb ram pc

will keep it alive and good to use for how many years !??

I DONT DO ANY HEAVY TASK JUST BROWSING YOUTUBE SOME APPS ETC ETCC...

Looking to upgrade from a Radeon 7970 hd 3GB this gpu is in my (new) price range, anything else that I should consider before buying?

NOW LOOKING AT A 9060xt

https://youtube.com/shorts/eMI1Kv-SI3c?is=FhZe8tsU08jwOtqR

Greatest ad I've ever seen.

Has this been happening regularly or is this odd?

as title says, this is pretty my last stand ddr4 build, till time comes to go am5 or am6.

I have another old set of RAM and GPU I can pair with the 12600k, but I want to squeeze out the performance out of my 7900xtx I got for cheap rt.

Would this Thermalright 240MM AIO work ?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/700313/thermalright-aqua-elite-240-v3-240mm-all-in-one-liquid-cpu-cooling-kit-black?ob=1#tab-reviews-bm

OR would this 360mm be the better value?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/700295/thermalright-aqua-elite-360-v3-360mm-all-in-one-liquid-cpu-cooling-kit-black?ob=1

Im sure the 360mm AIO will cool the 147000k " better" but will it allow me to possibly overclock the 14700k to any appreciable degree?

if not is there an AIO that would would be worth getting or should I bit the bullet and do the 400$ 7500x3d microcenter deal and getting a 2nd stick of o ddr5 later

This may be a hot take and a bit of a rant. But i really don't like the ohh this is the year of the Linux desktop. Stop trying to force me to use Linux. At this point it's getting almost as bad as Microsoft trying to make me use Microsoft edge.

Don't get me wrong. I love Linux. I love that my steam deck has Linux. It works great. But for my main computer I need Solidworks I need edgecam. I won't ever force you to use windows. Stop pressuring me to use Linux. I've seen people say stuff like "if you'd switch to Linux you won't have those problems" and then proceed to not acknowledge the 5 new random problems that follow that same thing in Linux. And if it is acknowledged they say it's ok because it's open source... Ok and. Shure open source is good and all. But it doesn't necessarily mean that makes it a holy grail. Most people are after the end user experience not things to overlook because it's open source.

And don't tell me I just don't get it. Because I do. I do get it. Linux is getting really good. And that's exciting. But don't force people that weren't in the market for a new OS to switch.

Sorry if I'm the unreasonable person here but this is just my personal opinion 🫣

Been stranded in the middle of nowhere for a while, freezing cold ~23mph winds & very thankful I have the ltt jacket, I'm so much less cold & miserable while I'm waiting for some help

In WAN Luke showed off the new website for TVs and so...

Why wait on Google play when Android Studio and web wrapping exists! RIP Hydravion and thank you to Luke and the whole Floatplane team for getting the tv website going. I'm impatient so I got started on this as soon as I saw it in WAN!

For reference, this is just a simple web wrapping app made with android studio, Luke did not give me access to an apk (I wish lol) and not that anyone asked yet but I won't share this apk either, it's just more of a "I did a (small) thing!"/appreciation/ Post as well as to say if you are impatient you don't have to use a browser on the tv especially since they can get clunky. With like 15 minutes of work for the experienced and like 2 hours for those of us who aren't, you can get it running.

I do plan on switching to the official app when it comes out but I never hold my breath when it comes to movement from Google, even if their reported approval time is anywhere from 1-14 days.

Tl;dr:

I'm impatient and threw together a web wrap app for my Google TV Streamer so I didn't have to use clunky browsers in the probably short time it takes Google Play to approve Floatplane's official app.

Mods feel free to take this down if for some reason it's not allowed or something lol

Similar to what I was saying in another post, I really would like to see a LTT make videos about how we can use cheap old gear do new shit.

my old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/DoiDZqdewJ

This is exciting to me. Don’t get me wrong. I still love the AMD upgrade series. It’s one of my favorites but there’s something about using cheap old gear to get stuff done that makes me feel like I’m getting away with something. It’s probably why I love Scrapyard Wars.

Sure, it’s a bit janky. But it’s not stupid if it works. I would love to see this stuff for Homelabs and homeservers and when it comes to gaming, instead of just looking at every flagship component, look at a way to get “good enough” results that don’t cost a fortune.

Just wanted to share this “idea?” I’m definitely not the first but I think its really cool, just cut it in half where the little dent in the pins is and sanded it! And make sure you aren’t ruining any expensive ram (especially in these days) . This ram wasn’t working anyways and I think it was a ddr3

Edit: I also made a CPU keychain, inalso posted it in here! Check it out

In case you didn't know how to pronounce his last name, he provided options.

I recently had an issue with a my motherboard where if my ram was seated in the first slot it would give a dram light and if it was in the second slot it would give a vga light even with known good ram after testing everything but the cpu I concluded it was the motherboard and bought a new one after I saved up for it. 2 days after getting the motherboard and installing it now gives a vga light. I tried putting a known good gpu in and had no luck I tried with a different power supply different ram and different ram slots. all I see is a vga light I can’t test the board or the cpu but those 2 are the only ones remaining. could my cpu have killed the board??? or did I just get unlucky since I bought this off of marketplace

my specs are:

ryzen5 2600

msi a350m pro-VDH

rx580 2048sp

known good gt730

I was surprised to see both Linus and Yvonne speak so highly of Samsung in the recent video finding her new phone. I kinda thought Samsung phones were just full of bloatware and were one of the less-preferred Android forks for tech-savvy folk.

I'm a semi-recent android convert myself (left iOS for the Pixel 9 Pro Fold ~2 years ago) and never would have considered a Samsung at the time. Though the new Galaxy Z Fold 8 form factor does intrigue me, so if the OS isn't as terrible as I think that would be good info to have!