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Interesting question. I've been looking into it as well, but that's been quite a while. I know there's some board/software based on arduino to make it fly by itself, while also allowing you to control it. The name was ardupilot or arducopter (or something like that). Maybe you should look into that. For parts, there's a big online store called hobbyking, but I have no idea if there are better/cheaper options. Looking forward to other replies as well.

Why so anti-ubuntu?

Some easier projects that I did were following: A small script that downloads the list of teams in my volleyball club. The script extracts all the team names. The user enters one of the team names and the script then generates an ical file containing the games of that team. Now I can easily get my volleyball calendar in my google calendar. My grandfather keeps a little book about our family, listing when people were born, married, etc. It also has a calendar with an overview per month (all the same events) and it has a family tree. I decided to make a tool in python for him, so that it would be easier to maintain it. There would be an export function to put it all in a word document or smth. These kind of things are purely solving your own problems. Try to find things like that, that way you'll stay motivated

Archbang is different from regular Arch Linux

Thanks, made total sense Thanks for the tip. I ended up picking that cpu. The store I'm buying from has a 10% discount because it's mother's day (don't ask me why ). So I'll go for the i5 4690, an asus h97-PRO motherboard and I was also able to throw in a 128GB SSD from sandisk. Thank you very much for all the help guys

Okidoki, guess you convinced me. I'll try to make another build based on an i5 4460 or i5 4590. Is the extra cost of the 4590 worth it? (It's about 15 euros more expensive here) Or can i better invest it elsewhere. It's not that much money in the end, but still Aside from that, is there a specific chipset i should go with for my motherboard? H81, B85 and H97 seem to be my options. I know anything starting with "Z" is for overclocking, so I'll leave those aside. For games I'm playing. At the moment it's mainly Cities: Skylines. I'll probably get the Witcher 3 when I get a new pc and I might go back to Planetside 2. The rest of the stuff I play are some indie games that any pc can run. EDIT: changed the CPU and motherboard: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FCrR8d (rest of the build remained the same).

That's a good question actually. While python 3 has been out for quite a while, most people seem to still be using version 2 (or 2.7 to be more precise). I think this is also being said in the book. Don't take my word for it however, I only used python for some small projects. I just checked the python website. Seems python 2 got an update last december, so it's still being maintained. I guess it won't do any harm to learn the 2nd version. In the end it's up to you By the way, if I can give you some advice. Don't focus too much on which language to learn, just pick one that seems nice and go make stuff. In the end a programming language is just a tool to create something. No matter what language you pick, you'll always be able to learn something from it, that's also useful in another language. If you really want to learn how to program, the most important thing is just to build crap. Every programmer has made a monthly payment calculator and stuff like that. As I said, it's a tool to create stuff, so go create stuff that solves some of your problems. The feeling when you get something useful working is really cool. Don't think you need to know every feature before you can do smth. You'll be surprised to see what you can do with the basics.

I know about the single-core difference, but thanks for trying to explain it that thoroughly However, as far as the few benchmarks go that I've seen, multi-threaded the FX 8350 would be similar to i5's that were a little more pricy. Single core it performed way worse. And I kinda feel like the games that need CPU performance, also are optimized for multiple threads. The not so intensive single thread ones might just do fine on the amd. This is a total guess however. Apart from that, from what i've seen, the "real world" difference didn't seem to be that big. And for some reason I felt like going for the amd. You're also correct in thinking that I'm not planning to overclock it. When I was playing planetside 2, people with AMD processors had a significantly better experience as far as I remember (I played it shortly after its release). It might've changed, but otherwise you might be wrong

Nice choice

What are you trying out first? Btw, let us know what you thought of it too.

I live in Belgium. I'd prefer to buy it all in some store here so I can get my parts all at once. Guess I don't like waiting for deliveries from somewhere in Germany A question I have though. All those other proposed builds, will the performance be noticeable better or not that much after all? The main thing seems swapping the FX 8350 for an i5. I picked that CPU however because I wanted this pc to last for quite a while and because games are expected to get more and more optimized for more threads. So I guess the question is if changing to an i5 will be that much better.

Before I forget, pretty much all the distros let you make a "live USB", from which you can try out the OS and install it if you like. That way you can give it a try beforehand. You just have to think about the fact that in some distros and desktop environments (e.g. Xfce), a lot can be configured. So what you see at fist glance is not necessarily what you can end up with. Anyway, to make my opinion a little more clear (since you're looking for opinions ): I like Ubuntu and Mint for their "works out of the box" feel. I also like Xubuntu, because of how it looks after configuring all your stuff. The only thing there is that you have to do your configuration. It's nothing to be scared of though. Never had any experience with Kubuntu, but the KDE desktop is more Windows-style oriented as far as I've heard. So perhaps that's not what you're after. Have fun trying out linux

I think I'll stick with this PSU anyway. I don't think i'll ever put more than one GPU in there and I'll probably never take any top tier cards either. And since the power that most of the components need is mostly dropping, I think I should be fine here. Anyway, thanks for the input guys, I'll take another look at it.

I think you'll just have to try something out There's just too much out there and everyone will recommend something else. At the moment I'm using standard ubuntu myself, but I've been using some other distro's that use Xfce as it's desktop environment (like Xubuntu) and I liked those a lot too. By the way, you're probably not really looking for a certain distro, but for a specific desktop environment. The different kind of ubuntus ship with the most common one though, so look at which one looks nicest to you and go for that one I'd stay with ubuntu or mint though, since these are the most common ones and work pretty much "out of the box". Since you're looking for being able to launch smth quickly, but in a specific way, I'd recommend Xubuntu. You can install docker on it (looks like the OSX dock), so you can sort of mimic that. (plus Xubuntu is just pretty cool). I don't have any experience with openSUSE though. So if you still think it looks cool, just go for it

Hi all I've been looking at PC parts on and off for as long as I can remember, but now my desktop died after 7 years (or the GPU at least), I'm thinking of building smth myself. You can find the parts over here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4MzknQ. I won't be needing windows since I can get it for free through dreamspark, and I'll mostly be running Linux anyway. I've built this pc mainly to play some games. I play quite a variety of games, but not that many AAA titles. I know this system should be more than capable of running most current AAA titles, but I'd like it to last as long as my previous pc if possible (5-7 years). Anyway, are there some things I missed here? Some things that are still on my mind: I've read smth about the motherboard possibly needing a bios update before it could recognise the CPU. Anyone some experience with this? I'm quite confident the wattage on the PSU should be sufficient, but all that talk about 12V rails and what not got me confused. So is the one I picked ok for this build? For the case: I've been thinking of taking the Fractal Design Define R5 Black instead of the Corsair 200r. Any recommendations on this? Thanks already!