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I think they meant they’re not a fan of Windows and having to update those programs individually…

Not brush, but flexible gromit strips will do the edge protection bit.

Then, dunno, postbox / door draught excluder brushes?

Ah, Ok, yeah Arch on ARM is struggling at the moment

I have / had some Ras Pis on it, but they wrapped up … Pi0? a while back, so had to look at Raspbian (or whatever it’s called now)… I’d not considered Gentoo for them… hmmm

Maybe I’ll check that out

Thanks

Interested in why you went back to Gentoo after Arch.

I use Arch (btw) and tried Gentoo back in the day, but it’s always in the back of my mind that compiling source could be “better”…?

Mint is the best apparently

https://distrowatch.com/

I use Arch btw

This was great… great find and genius idea.

I think you’ve read me wrong there.

First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might’ve made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)

Second, the pinned post doesn’t become a final answer, it’s a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn’t like X, Y & Z)

From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community… and your experience.

~1600 hours uptime… no rebooting after patching?

You… you do patch your web server… don’t you…?

But, a good blog… must give my BIOSes a good looking at and see if I can change some of mine

LoL… looks like a EULA in Uppercase

Much prefer that you do your stuff the way you want, and lowercase makes it feel like it’s hand written

Man, we need to be able to pin some posts and answer these quesrions once.

I’m not saying there’s a single answer (I use Arch btw), but if we could just group all these Q&As in 1 post…

Nice

Or… just return the laptop?

Then purchase basically anything else

I’m surprised though, I thought Asus wouldn’t be a company to do something like that.

You’ve reminded me of a slightly off-topic point…

I tried to put Linux on an old laptop for a friend so their kids could use it… it had some weird (Realtek?) chip that was a combination of things (ie video and networking?) and Linux just couldn’t drive it, so I had to give up.

That’s the only Linux failure I’ve had and it was also the one where I told them it would definitely work…

Admittedly I’ve just scanned your list, but from a repair shop POV, surely the legal licensing would be of interest?

Ie, someone brings in an old device thst won’t run Win7 let alone 11 - but you can’t repair / upgrade without being very careful with the COA license

Linux: no issues.

So, the R320 is just for bulk storage?

Personally I’d drop that one for the lowest power consumption box I could find… unless it’s part of a (V)SAN for your R710?

But be careful with assuming many SFF PCs will be better than 1x R710, consider their power properly as they might be more expensive… servers are can be more efficient at heavier loads

Firstly, I agree with your main point.

Just an open thought: I wonder if zscalar are using settings in a heirarchy, ie if no env var is set, then check Gnome - just in case the user’s only making changes there…? Dunno…

What’s your usecase for the journals? That might help direct the discussion.

For work I use Outlook with caldavsynchronizer, but I’ve stepped away from those kind of Journals and now I’m tracking things in Logseq

For time tracking for work I’m using other tools too.

To be fair, the link’s just to git comments, so the headline captures the main point.

There’s BeyondCompare and Meld if you want a GUI, but, if I understand this correctly, rmlint and fdupes might be helpful here

I’ve done similar in the past - I prefer commandline for this…

What I’d do is create a “final destination” folder on the 4TB drive and then other working folders for each hdd / cd / dvd that you’re working through

Ie

/mnt/4TB/finaldestination /mnt/4TB/source1 /mnt/4TB/source2 …

Obviously finaldestination is empty to start with so it could just be a direct copy of your first hdd - so make that the largest drive.

(I’m saying copy here, presuming you want to keep the old drives for now, just in case you accidentally delete the wrong stuff on the 4TB drive)

Maybe clean up any obvious stuff

Remove that first drive

Mount the next and copy the data to /mnt/4TB/source2

Now use rmlint or fdupes and do a dry-run between source2 and finaldestination and get a feel whether they’re similar or not, so then you’ll know whether to just move it all to finaldestination or maybe then use the gui tools.

You might completely empty /mnt4TB/source2, or it might still have something in, depends on how you feel it’s going.

Repeat for the rest, working on smaller & smaller drives, comparing with the finaldestination first and then moving the data.

Slow? Yep. Satisfying that you know there’s only 1 version there? Yep.

Then do a backup 😉

My choice is Arch Linux purely because it’s bleeding edge

I’ve no idea if Arch actually has newer drivers than Debian / Fedora, but if they are you’ll (usually) get better support from the developers of whatever application / package - or in your case - drivers that you’re facing.

It’s more involved than “just” installing Debian, etc… but reading through the Arch Linux wiki as you install will (should) ensure you’ve got the correct drivers setup and you’ll know why they’re working.

So… it’ll be more effort, but you might get “better” results.