On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM Thomas Cameron via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 7/7/25 11:29 AM, home user via users wrote: > > Good morning, > > > > I'm overdue to buy a new home dual-boot (Fedora + 1 other t.b.d. Linux > > distro) workstation. I'm trying to find free, no-login-needed web sites > > that are a good help in comparing and choosing (not actually buying) > > workstation hardware (monitors, speakers, GPUs, sound cards, CPUs, > > memory, drives, power supplies, towers, trackballs, keyboards, optical > > drives, and so on). I haven't yet found any really good web sites for > > this. I need web sites that are: > > * authoritative; > > * complete; > > * correct; > > * current; > > * independent; > > * objective; and > > * relevant. > > > > ok. > > Now that you're done laughing.... > > > > I realize no web site can perfectly satisfy all of the above. But which > > come closest? It would help if they could both sort and filter. For > > example, I'd like to be able to sort monitors by how large of a color > > gamut they can display. I'd like to be able to filter both positively > > (show me only optical drives that can both write and read M-DISC) and > > negatively (do not show wi-fi only trackballs). > > > > What web sites do you recommend? > > Believe it or not, I find NewEgg's *customer* reviews to be pretty > realistic. I would be totally comfortable telling you to use NewEgg. > Their prices are good, their availability is impressive, and their > shipping is reasonable. I think trusting online reviews is _really_ bad advice. See articles like "Should we trust online reviews?," <https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/09/should-we-trust-online-reviews>: Companies rely on reviews to stand out from the pack. But some companies write or use fake reviews — about both how great their thing is, and how terrible their competitor is. In fact, some people have turned fake review writing into an online business by offering to write positive reviews. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
