I have a small man cave in the loft where I can smoke in peace with some consoles, a stereo, tea making facilities and computer.
I've got a monitor, keyboard etc and I'm running xfce, I think, a skinny Ubuntu. It's an old cheap laptop and the dvd drive is knackered. I don't use it for much. Youtube type stuff, some music, pdf's, photos and that's about it. It's still struggling.
I was thinking about buying a fairly cheap pc which I can plug the monitor into, stick some sort of linux on and wi-fi up.
Any suggestions as to where to look for that? I have no idea where to start. Ideally something that could run ubuntu at a decent speed for not very many pennies. Most stuff I've come across comes with windows, monitor and a whole host of crap I don't want - admittedly my web-fu in this field is not strong. On the other hand I don't think I'm quite ready to build my own machine.
I've got a monitor, keyboard etc and I'm running xfce, I think, a skinny Ubuntu. It's an old cheap laptop and the dvd drive is knackered. I don't use it for much. Youtube type stuff, some music, pdf's, photos and that's about it. It's still struggling.
I was thinking about buying a fairly cheap pc which I can plug the monitor into, stick some sort of linux on and wi-fi up.
Any suggestions as to where to look for that? I have no idea where to start. Ideally something that could run ubuntu at a decent speed for not very many pennies. Most stuff I've come across comes with windows, monitor and a whole host of crap I don't want - admittedly my web-fu in this field is not strong. On the other hand I don't think I'm quite ready to build my own machine.