mykaDragonBlue

well lets assume that's flexible, and see what comes up. I'd rather a good solution than a cheap one. I haven't traditionally found in-ears very comfortable, particularly for long term use ( I would have these in for hours at a time ), however I have also not previously tried a good set of in ears either so perhaps these would be more comfortable.

My office work environment is quite noisy, and makes it somewhat hard to concentrate effectively. While I currently have an adequate but far from amazing set of headphones they are not especially effective at sound isolation, so in order to drown out eternal noise I have to overwhelm it with louder music. This is also not really ideal. So I am thinking about a new set of headphones and would appreciate your helpful recommendations. Primary Requirement: Sound Isolation. I would like to be able to to isolate myself as much as possible from the surrounding noise environment while playing music quietly, or simply wearing the 'phones with nothing playing. Not having sound leak out would also be ideal. Other stuff: 'phones would be used at a static desk, run from a PC or laptop's standard audio ports (on board sound), though a new external device could possibly be included as part of the arrangement. Budget would be up to a couple of hundred dollars, but could possibly be stretched. I'm fully open to cheaper solutions that meet the main isolation goal but lack in other areas. I am buying from Australia, so postage becomes a significant factor for many online retailers. Sound preference would be for a slight bass emphasis, but not excessively so. A full and nuanced sound is desirable. Sound quality across a wide volume range would be good, as the intention would be to generally be using the 'phones at lower volume but sometimes rocking out should be a thing. Mic optional, but not required. If present it would spend most of it's time folded out of the way if one was present, however would be handy for the occasional voip call. Some sort of manual volume control is handy. I'll just use my keyboard I guess. Appearance is not a major factor. Being happy beats looking good any day. TLDR: title says it all.

yeah... thats pretty much my ideal PC with current tech.

I'm pretty sure those specs are better than my laptop. sigh. This might actually be a phone i seriously consider when the time finally comes to replace my htc oneXL

do some research on making them show up as a single big drive using a JBOD Span arrangement ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAID_drive_architectures ). Haven't tried it myself, so no real pointers apart from that.

At work it's a Ducky Shine 5 (brown switches) and a Logitech m950, with a plantronics headset. Home though is a different story... That's a Logitech wireless keyboard and the older design Logitech Anywhere MX mouse... and the TV's speakers. The mouse pad is a plastic cutting board stolen from my camping gear.

Option 1: as mentioned by others, Dual Boot. In the past i have set these up so that when booted to Linux the Windows drives are mounted as additional hard drives, meaning it is pretty easy to access files across the 2 OSes (in one direction at least) and you can also minimise the amount of space required for the Linux Partition by storing most of your data on the windows disk (or D drive or whatever). Option 2: Virtualisation - you can use something like Virtualbox or Vagrant to run a virtual linux install. This completely preserves your main OS and boot sequence etc. The other advantage here is that you can fairly easily reset or replace the linux install if you have difficulties, and try our a few different options. - If you want a full Desktop environment, use something like Linux Mint on VirtualBox ( https://www.virtualbox.org/ ) (you want VirtualBox 5.1 for Windows hosts and most likely the extensions as well, for easy integration between the host machine and the VM. - if you want to try a terminal only install (you can run a pretty small virtual machine that way) I would suggest CentOS ( https://www.centos.org/ ) on Vagrant ( https://www.vagrantup.com/ ) as a good option. The Minimal iso will give you a relatively lightweight VM and a very quick education in using the package management system. This guide ( https://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-vagrant-windows/) covers the basics of a traditional vagrant setup, though i've never tried it on win10, so no guarantees. I think the newer versions of vagrant use a VM repository system, so may be even simpler to get up and running: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/getting-started/ Option 3: switch completely. probably not the ideal first step... I personally use Linux Mint at work, and would recommend it over ubuntu as I find interface somewhat less annoying, while most info around for Ubuntu is still valid in Mint if you're looking for assistance. We also use CentOS Vagrant boxes pretty heavily for our development environments.

HD-6500M and HD-6600M crossfired on an A6-3400M APU laptop. It's a little underpowered, so I'm looking at building a slightly silly rig later this year.