<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Beddingfield, Allen" <allen@ua.edu><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:41:07 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Place to buy desktop in Atlanta<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;" data-mce-style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;">You could just get the parts and build one from MicroCenter - no OS license required.<br><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I lack the patience required to do that. I get mad, cut my hand on the edge of the case, and things get broken. I've been in them, but I've not bought parts and built one like that since 2012.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I also don't want to play the "will Linux boot?" game.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>