Or Desert if you get lost in the Lunch with your laptop. 
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Most people upgrade their computers within a year or two, and replace their computers within 3 to 5 years. That works great if your made of money, and don't care about E-waste.
Or, if your better then that, your at least selling them used. Or like you said, know a family member who you could give one too that is so old it's got no real resale value in the market.
I however, usually buy or build a new computer once every 10-years. My philosophy is, I want a computer that can do everything I need, and to do it well.
So for me, the term future proofing has merit. And since I'm not made of money, I can't afford to buy new computers every couple years. So I need something that will last.
It's like it has been said on here, technology improvement happens at a super fast rate. If you don't plan for it, your going to be left behind. Of course, it all depends on what you need a computer for.
Chromebooks are super popular right now. This is cause kids use them for school. But their not high end machines.
Just how long do you think a Chromebook is going to last tech wise, judging by the weaker hardware they use, compared to mine which uses top shelf hardware?
Yeah that is good point. Not trash a money next two years out window. I have a friend and he have a childrens and he sayed always next 2 years he bought new laptops. I building in 2015 PC but it was medium peripheral components. Was better with higher price but diffrents was only 5%.
I build a computer and still working. Sometimes artefacts when my graphic card is over heat. We need a computer to our preference not what corporation want sell you what many things are hyper with some youtube channels with high price.
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Funny that was around the same time I built my main desktop.
I optimized it for installing OSX on it.
According to my calculation, it was less than 30% of the cost of the real mac with a similar spec.
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Yes for me working Catalina 15.2 on my PC. I have installation on usb.
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Ah, another Hackintosher 
We might have met before somewhere on one of those Hackintosh forums.
I quit macOS after Linux in general getting quite good for input system. You can read my story here:
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I never liked apple. The price what you in theory paying is for security. Closed distribution for me.
Me neither.
But for someone who had a repetitive strain injury, Apple trackpad was a god send.
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Ok back to topic. What you choose a parts for linux if you start build now? Better way next year? I heard some corporation want start near december ddr5 on market. I am wrong? I heard corporation have new products for next generation. This is just consument clients when they have full and people stop buying then they coming with new on some big electronics meeting with many companies.
I think the first thing I select is the form factor.
I am planning to stick to the full tower for max options for m/b. But my husband wants a compact system. So I might even consider AIO for him. I think a chassis is the longest lasting part of the computer.
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Yeah. I build that list in 2019 or 2020. What you could changed here?
https://www.proshop.no/Kabinett/Lian-Li-PC-O11DX-Dynamic-Black-Kabinett-Miditower-Svart/2656857 Obudowa
https://www.proshop.no/Hovedkort/ASUS-ROG-CROSSHAIR-VIII-HERO-WI-FI-Hovedkort-AMD-X570-AMD-AM4-socket-DDR4-RAM-ATX/2777395 płyta główna
https://www.proshop.no/RAM/GSkill-TridentZ-RGB-DDR4-3600-C16-QC-64GB/2808953 RAM
https://www.proshop.no/Grafikkort/ASUS-GeForce-RTX-2060-SUPER-DUAL-OC-EVO-8GB-GDDR6-RAM-Grafikkort/2788198 karta graficzna
https://www.proshop.no/SSD/Crucial-MX500-SSD-25-1TB/2635526 Dysk 1TB/2635526
https://www.proshop.no/SSD/Crucial-MX500-SSD-25-500GB/2637975 Dysk 500GB/2637975
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The case looks practical to have all the ports in the front instead of back. No more twisting the neck trying to reach over to the back panel 
But I have no idea for the price.
I even do not know that currency sign.
This company from Japan or this zone get firts place in 2020 reward for building a cases.
I mean from all companies what produced a case for PC. Do you think so this case is good? When I try catch something I tried reading all internet 
I did not look into the detail. But I think it is a good idea to have ports in front not in back.
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Like I said in my previous post awhile back, since you are asking the question now, the answer is you should wait and build with newer parts next year.
First of all, we have PCIE Gen 4 now, it just needs a little flushing out, which should be all good by 2022.
Next year we are going to have DDR5 as you mentioned, and that RAM will be faster then what I have in my system, more bandwidth. Also, it should be ECC RAM like servers have always used. 11th gen CPU's come with support for ECC in consumer world.
We may or may not have the next gen GPU's by then as well. Btu with things the way they are in the tech shortage, I predict more then likely, you will be buying either a RTX 3060, or a RTX 3070 next year for your build.
Just don't make the mistake of buying a 2060 like you were talking about, because the 2060 doesn't properly handle RTX shaders. And the 3060 will better handle the next gen titles, where as the 2060 is not really going to handle next gen titles very well.
As far as drive storage, SSD prices have fallen so much that one doesn't need to go mechanical anymore. While the prices went back up temporarily due to the tech shortage, they will eventually go back down again.
Where as it used to cost 1000-dollars to buy a 1TB mechanical hard drive, you can now get a 1TB SSD drive for 140 dollars, and a 2TB SSD for 200 dollars. Some people are hardcore with their storage and they got 8TB of SSD storage.
Why you ask? Cause SSD's are super fast yo. And the fancier PCIE NVME M.2 SSD's are ludicrissly fast, were talking up to 6000 to 8000 MBPS now! Basically its to the point now that SSD's are so fast, your internet download connection has to try and keep up HAHA!
So ya, just wait till next year, and see what you can get and afford and all that. Thats my recommendation.
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Yes. That is true the ssd are very fast. Always using data on old hard disk drive but system installing on SSD. This is popular solution. Example Zorin now working from usb on PC. If I could connect usb ssd to my mobile with power bank then it will be killer androids operative systems.
Funny you should mention that. Cause I have a cheap 10" tablet that I plug into an Anker battery pack, its their largest one, what is it now 26,800MAH? I think that is what it is, anyways, its their flagship model that has the most amount of power.
Well, get ready to be amazed. That Anker battery has enough power in it, that it can keep my tablet powered for an entire week, 5-days! Thats cause the tablet is so power efficient, only uses maybe 15-watts at most.
My tablet has Android 9 on it from 2020. I've heard that Android is going to be rolling out Android 12 very soon, I am kind of excited to see what that OS will be like. Some people didn't like Android 10 when it rolled out, I guess they changed a bit too much IDK.
Anyways, why do I like my tablet? Cause when the power goes out, I can power my tablet off of that Anker battery the whole time. Where as my notebook has a 280-watt power brick, it has a thirst for power, and would require a generator to keep it powered during a power outage lol.
I do have a generator now a days, but its not an INVERTER generator, and I would never risk my new computer, plugged into a generator with like a total harmonic distortion of 23%.
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Bourne, I am looking at your list more intently and I discovered a possible discrepancy.
I love the case, Lian-Li makes excellent cases, but they can get super expensive. I don't understand your currency value, so not sure if 1600 translates to in US dollars. But excellent choice none the less, love the cubby hole for PSU, and I agree with French Press, nice having the ports on the front.
The X570 Mobo choice is spot on, I think that mobo has all the features your ever going to need. I even like the power supply choice, the Corsair 850, which is a solid PSU, and would take a lot to overload it, so no worries.
I would be concerned by such an old architecture in CPU choice for next year though, if I were you, I'd be shooting for something in the 5000 series. So thats the first possible discrepancy I discovered, too old of architecture choice for 2022 year.
The other possible discrepancy choice I discovered was in your RAM choice. Do you really need 64GB of RAM? I ask this because I have 32GB of RAM in my new computer, I have pushed my computer hard (or at least so I think) in rendering 4K resolution video, and I just toppled 16GB of RAM usage rendering a 1-hour video in 4K.
If you told me that you were going to be rendering 8K resolution video or higher, or you were going to be running several VM's, I could see the point of 64GB. However, if your use case is no greater then mine or less, you don't need 64GB of RAM.
I do appreciate the RGB of the RAM choice though, its always nice to have a little bling bling, to go with that function motion swing hehe. But as I mentioned in my last post, please upgrade that 2060 GPU choice to the 3060 GPU.
Also Asus is good, EVGA is also good for GPU. But please stay away from Gigabyte for everything computer related, cause they are bound determine to bankrupt their company by making poor decisions these days. So good GPU brand choice, just not the right model choice, choose a 3060.
Regarding cables, there is no need to overthink it. A cable is a cable. And as far as I am concerned, as long as the cables are sleeved modular and black in color, that already achieves an award for competency.
But if you want amazing levels of cables management, you could use cable combs, which makes the cables look super neat when connected to components in view through the window. Another thing you can use that works great is velcro cable ties.
Modern motherboards support NVME M.2 SSD drives now as standard. Depending on model of mobo, is how many NMVE slots it has onboard. Its good to have at least 1 NVME slot, but 2 is better. If you have your OS installed on an NVME SSD, prepare to experience the freedom lol.
I say this cause well, its super fast. You think your Zorin OS 16 boots fast now, wait till you got Zorin booting off of a 6000 MBPS M.2 drive, it be like boot into OS in 5-seconds lol. As far as brand, Crucial is OK, but Samsung is better.
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The value a computer is not big like a life in Japan.
I see now is very stir (movement). If coming new system then the processor and graphics card and so on will be support. Linux working on old and new machines what is very good. Apple and Microsoft they first build a peripherals components and then coming a new operative system. When you buying system this types a computer they have a computer and components only for home or pro. If you try install another OS it will be crashed. Linux don't have this problem because is flexible. I have installed on my PC operating system on SSD and this is very good. I bet new NVME SSD are faster. Crucial on test SSD was best write/record time. I still will take a observation with all this technology. Because better little wait and see how price jumping old/new technology to get a best balance.
If you can create a topic what kind PC you using your peripherals components to use linux distribution or DUAL - feel free to put comments.