Why You Might Want to Try Linux (WYMWTTLinux) is a series of posts around the same topic – Ubuntu Linux.
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Sooner or later I will snap out of this fascination with the Terminal window. 
Anyway, so lshw stands for List hardware. Lshw is a command/”small tool” that displays super complete information on the hardware specifications of your computer – and I do mean complete. Here’s what it looks like:
It’s purely command line but good news is, there’s a GUI version too. Bad news is, you have to install it first from the repository. To install the GUI version, open a terminal window and type
sudo apt-get install lshw-gtk
type the root password and wait for the installation to complete. To open the GUI lshw, type
sudo lshw -X
in a terminal window. Please note that you have to run it as super user, or else you’ll get incomplete information. The X should be capital X. Here’s what it looks like:
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