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I recall that an old Enlite ATX case I bought had "custom" sized standoffs because the designers screwed up some dimension and decided to compensate for their mistake by supplying out of standard sized standoffs. This undoubtedly cost them quite a bit to compensate for their "smartness." I don't...

Excellent news, thank you Gizmo! The Silencer 600 still in its unopened and unblemished shipping carton. I'm somewhat up in the air about who to ask to build my new machine--again. I have an old friend who really knows computering upside up and down. I was gonna ask him to build my new box for...

A pal who used to work at M$ also luuved Win2000. What am I saying? I'm still using Win7---which is really closer to Win10 thanks to MS shoving it up my nose unbidden and unwanted. Lord knows why I insisted on buying the Firepower Silencer 600. Probably because I didn't notice it was EATX form...

Daniel~ asked me to post a list of components that will (at least as of now) be in my new Linux only machine. Bearing in mind that the local assembler offers a short list of parts available: NEW INFO NEW INFO Asus Z170 LGA 1151 mainboard. $136 Intel Core i5 6500 Quad Core CPU $210 Samsung 500...

It was only ten years ago? Time sure flies!

It's heartwarming to read such wonderful posts from Dan~ and ThunderRd, not to mention booman "t!" Sorry, can't produce a decent cross. It's an extremely long haul from that most beautiful part of the world. I like the way the fog hangs in the mountains thereabouts, like classic Chinese...

It might be much more fun to meet ThunderRd in his home environment. It's not as if it's probably a twenty four hour journey at the very least, plus train(?) time from Bangkok to the north of Thailand. The drastic change in climate wouldn't be noticeable and the foreign stomach flora and fauna...

I recall that Daniel~ had a lot of help from the folks he cites with his adventures in Linux. I wish that I remembered more than I forgot about the mighty Mr Torvald's efforts on our behalf. I'll probably need an embarrassing amount of help. It's been at least eight years since I built my last...

Wow, that's an extremely generous offer Daniel~! If Ravensdale is close enough to Seattle, I think I'd be happy to take you up on your very, very generous offer. The only hassle is that I'd INSIST on paying you for your efforts on my behalf. I had to stop driving about two years ago but still...

Very well stated Daniel~. M$ has already pushed me unwanted updates that eventually become Win10, truly unscrupulous "people." I should receive "Linux for Dummies" tomorrow, will purchase my new box for Linux only soon.

Don't tell us that you didn't LUV that pea-soup shade of green? But seriously, well done on your Arch installation!

I'll probably break plenty of things, I sure did way back when. Thanks for the advice about the "library" set of CD-ROM's, they're not exactly inexpensive.

I ordered the Mint Cinnamon 17.3 disc from the Mint folks, as well as "Linux for Dummies," which should be about my speed. How important is it to buy their umpteen disc set with "everything" on them? I put it off for now.

The pea soup green reminds me strongly of my first color monitor, a 13" IBM CRT. It was in love with that ugh shade of green, nothing else would display. Oh well, it was used and cheap.

Hope you have many more happy ones!

Many thanks to booman, Gizmo, Daerandin, allenskd and Happy New Year to everyone at GamersOn Linux! I liked Red Hat years ago but chose to "go steady" with SuSE, why I'm not sure. Maybe it was KDE? Thank you for your very kind offer, booman! I'm happy to buy 17.3 Cinnamon from...

You guys are indeed the best, thank you very much for posting such valuable information, at least for me! It's good to learn that Mint 17.3 is out of Beta, it looks like 17.2 with KDE would have not been such a good choice. Thanks for the LinuxMint store link, the OS discs come from OSDisc.com...

Anyone dealt with OSDisc.com? They offer both Mint 17.2 and 17.3 versions on disc for very reasonable prices. They list Mint Cinnamon 17.3, however 17.2 is described as "Linux Mint 17.2 KDE." I really liked KDE years ago---but is Cinnamon far better? I want to have the OS on disc, please...

Sorry to be a bother, I see that Mint 17.3 is a Beta release, and I saw that someone said that it crashed the first time they moved their mouse. One person's gripe, I know, big deal. Am I right in thinking that Mint Cinnamon 17.2 might be a smarter OS for this beginner?

Really difficult passwords sure help. Candidly, I seriously doubt that I'll ever need a LOM card! Happy Holidays, Best of Kwanzaas and Merry Christmas to all!