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Or, if you want to upgrade your computer, you'll need to know what you have and what you can have.

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You need to interrogate your computer to discover its specifications.

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The easiest way is to do that is with one of the standard Linux GUI programs:

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i-nex collects hardware information and displays it in a manner similar to the popular CPU-Z under Windows.

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HardInfo displays hardware specifics and even includes a set of eight popular benchmark programs you can run to gauge your system's performance.

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KInfoCenter and Lshw also display hardware details and are available in many software repositories.

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Alternatively, you could open up the box and read the labels on the disks, memory, and other devices.

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Or you could enter the boot-time panels—the so-called UEFI or BIOS panels.

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Just hit the proper program function key during the boot process to access them.

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These two methods give you hardware details but omit software information.