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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 2 years ago
@liw If it is x86 I prefer Intel chipset, including GPU because Intel tends to enable Linux months before products hit the market. I.e. usually that kind of stack tends to be somewhat stress-free. This comes from ex-Intel employee but I think Intel has the best Linux team across the board when it comes to hardware companies :-)
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@liw That's a great list.

I've had memtest on my (very short) list too (https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/usual-server-setup/), and another thing I've always done to test the hardware is `smartctl -t long /dev/sdX` (from smartmontools). Bad disks used to be more frequent, but on SSDs it's a pretty quick check so there's no real downside to doing it.

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@liw debian has this checklist too which i fill up when i get a new device no one has tested debian on yet https://wiki.debian.org/MycomputerbrandTemplate

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