On 7/7/2025 12:13 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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
Thank-you, Jeff.
I basically agree with Jeff here.
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