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Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop?

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Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:

> Anyone have an opinion on whether this computer would or would not be
> good for Slackware 15?  Any known problems with installing,
> partitioning disk or anything?
>
> Acer Tower 18L Desktop
>
> Intel Core i5-14400 - 1TB SSD - 16GB RAM
>
> SKU # TC-1785-ES12
I would not try to put Slackware 15 on that or any new machine from the
last 5 years or so. Go with Current, and use grub. From what I've read,
you can shut off secure boot with those so you should be mostly OK. The
other places to get bit are if the wifi chip will do AP mode (if you
care), if the system has usable virtualization (got bit by that myself
once) and the GPU. Since it's Intel you should be OK. Newer machines
want some type of framebuffer on boot. We had a thread on LinuxQuestions
about this topic a month or so back (something about booting on
non-legacy systems). The hardware out today is not what 15 expects.

https://slackware.uk/people/alien-current-iso/slackware64-current-iso/slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso

Ex:
dd if=/var/tmp/slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=512 status=progress

Personally, I'd get a system76 or something made for Linux so you know
everything works well and out-of-the-box. Those mass-made big box store
systems don't have interchangable parts. Once I tried to get a new fan
for my HP. Just one fan. It was a non-stardard size and didn't fit. If
the PSU goes, you're out of luck. Most of PCIe lanes will be used. 

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Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-06-21 17:28 -0300
  Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-06-22 09:58 -0400
    Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-06-25 02:58 -0300
      Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? kaukasoina3dore73js4@sci.fi (Petri Kaukasoina) - 2026-06-25 10:29 +0000
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      Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-06-25 10:21 -0400
        Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-06-26 02:02 -0300
          Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-06-26 09:57 -0400

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