It been a few years since my last visit to Linux and I am well and truly done with Microsoft. I like the look of Linux Mint Cinnamon and I am looking to purchase a used hp eliteone 800 g3 23.8-in touch aio to install it on, specs - intel core i5 7500, 8GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Is this spec suitable for a Linux Miint Cinnamon install?
best regards
Tom
Hi tom and welcome back.
Yes linux mint will run superb on that machine with that spec.
My only recommandation would be to go with the debian version LMDE it gives you the cinammon desktop plus the features of debian. A great combination
Regarding horsepower it is going to be plenty. 
It will easily run any Linux.
The 8GB RAM is well enough if you use the system normally, that can be small if you plan to run virtual machines, or if you browse the web like todays young people: never close any browser tab, just open a new, and the browser chews up all memory with tons of pages open and loaded⌠that solely depends on your usage habits.
The computer is not a shiny new one, and also not an ancient one, so I expect everything to work with a todays kernel.
But we cannot be sure of this, as we donât know what network card it has installed, even today some wifi cards donât play well with Linux out of the box. I see itâs a âtouch screenâ, probably it will work (it worked for me with a Lenovo touc laptop), but this isnât quite sure.
In case something doesnât work out of the box, donât be scared, thereâs a solution for almost any problemsâŚ
Is there a âBadâ network card I should be looking out for?
agh, dilemma, Mint or Mint LMDE ?
try both as demo before you disside ,then you get a feel for them both. mint is ok i have used it and it is easy to set up
No⌠Go lmde. Then if it dont work which is highlight unlikely try mint.
On network cards in laptops I have never had a problem with any version of mint and done over 400 installons for clients. Only time I had a problem was the WiFi card was dead on purchase. Swapped it out and new one detected, working 5 mins later, took me longer to screw it back together. And wifi cards are around 10 euros on usb keys now. The one I replaced was on a tower mother board, only did it as part of the general clean inside.
Some of the broadcoms (definitely not all of them!). But I canât give you an exact list.
I never was a victim of that, but time to time on the forums pop up threads that discuss wifi not working, and then usually the solution is to go to github, grab something bcm43-whatever patched driver, compile from source, blacklist the original distro provided kernel module, and use the compiled one.
I second LMDE, as Iâm a fan of Debian.
LMDE is 95% Debian, just tailored to look&feel like Mint.
On the other side the âoriginalâ Mint is based on Ubuntu.
If you prefer newer codebase, newer everything, Mint is the way to go.
If you prefer maturity, stability, reliability, LMDE will be th better choice.
Because:
Mint is a descendent from Ubuntu, which is a descendent of Debian - testing. It is basically a developement branch of Debian, so we can say, Ubuntu and so Mint is based on Debian developement release.
On the other hand LMDE is based on Debian - stable, which is the stable branch of Debian.
I could say it contains what Debian considers production ready.
This also means, Debian -stable-, and so LMDE has an older codebase.
Demo! Ofcourse, how could I have forgotten D E M O !!!
I am checking the EliteOne on Saturday so will make my mind up when I see it ⌠Thanks for the advice everyone
This was now 7 years ago on my touch screen PC.
âWhen I booted Mint 18, the cursor was jumping all over the screen.â
It happen on a Lenovo X220 which was a tablet laptop with a touch screen. Anyway, I found a fix for the problem by disabling a couple xinput parameters. So if this happens on your PC, the fix is fairly easy.
The temp fix on my X220 was open a terminal and enter âxinput disable 14â which was the touch screen input. Xinput might be different on your laptop and you may not even have the same problem I had.
The permanent fix was to edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and add â Option âIgnoreâ âonâ â to the device for touch screen.
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It might be worth checking that. Almost all Intel or AMD cards or inboard graphics will work with Linux, but if it is an Nvidia card check the model ⌠a very new card may not yet have Linux drivers. A very old Nvidia card may also no longer have Linux support.
Recommend Cat 5 hardwire. Wifi still seems iffy to me.
