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Yes, this helps tremendously. Thank you so much for taking the time to write out not just the info, but all the terminal instructions for this noob. Much appreciated!
The most-often recommended file-systems for SSDs are Btrfs and F2FS, both of which support and enable TRIM by default (as of Linux 6.2 for Btrfs, so if you are running an older kernel version you might need to manually enable it).
This is great to know on multiple levels because in Windows it is triggered from the OS, I think as a weekly task, and NTFS has little to do with it as far as I know.
It’s also good to know that support is pretty standard now, as a lot of what I found online was just old and the rest assumed I’d already be familiar with it. Bad assumption, lol.
I don’t know enough to have a preference one way or another for a specific file system, so I can just start with Btrfs and go forward with that. I can also read up on Btrfs further on its own, which I now know to do.
Safest bet would be to investigate once you settle on a distro
Absolutely. But this gets me started, and pointed in the right direction. Many thanks.
0·1 year agoI will check that out. Thank you for the suggestion!
EDITED TO ADD: Given that Fedora is upstream from RHEL (no longer truly open source) and is developed in part by Red Hat, is there any chance it too will become less than open source? Because as good as Fedora must be to have all the downstream enterprise versions built around it that it does, if there’s any real chance it will go closed-source I don’t want to waste energy on it. I know that some will likely think this an overreaction on my part, but I’m putting in the effort here because I’m trying to get away from embrace, extend, and exterminate altogether, not just MS/Apple. Gonna list this as a “maybe” for right now.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the differences a bit, it’s very much appreciated. I’d heard about the Snapstore thing and also Red Hat’s decision regarding RHEL; while I don’t understand it all yet I do think closed-source defeats the whole purpose of Linux (and why I’m getting off Windows) so yeah, I’m with you on that.
So far, with Mint I haven’t had any problems running Cinnamon at all (decided to try the heaviest DE first) but I will probably still end up trying Kfce as the DE on Debian, for example. It was actually shocking how well Mint runs on 4GB of RAM, lol.
But I have plenty of time and plenty of USB sticks, and I will try all the feasible distros mentioned, taking notes along the way. Thank you again for the suggestions!
How to access a system overview (installed hardware, memory, drivers, etc.) It doesn’t have to be super detailed or interactive; I’m thinking of the System Information report available on Macs.
I definitely know the feeling, lol. For me there was a surprising amount of emotion involved with the whole thing, knowing I was definitely leaving (because in every intangible way I was already gone) and then doing the practical stuff to make it happen. Definitely not a straight-line progression out for me: I deleted some things, then others, hemmed and hawwed a lot along the way. You put a lot of effort into your art; it shows. I put a lot of myself into my posts. It’s harder than it looks to take that decisive action and wipe them all, and then it was an unintentionally long goodbye, none of it well planned on my part. But worth the effort. Feels really good to be out.
I know I’m kinda late here, but you should know that you can still take your images off Imgur. Imgur is still totally independent of Reddit, and Reddit can’t restore what you remove from a third party image hosting site.
That won’t solve everything, but it will completely rob this particular post of its value to Reddit. (Excellent CGI work, btw.)
These are the two I saw linked in the post and its comments, but if you log into Imgur you can unlink everything you ever posted from there to Reddit:
Ext4 seems to be the default across the distros I’ve looked at so if I can just run with that, all the better. Thank you for pointing this out, much appreciated.