@darkguyman There isn't much I can't do with open source that I can do with commercial software, hence the motive for pirating it isn't there. I used to prefer adobe premier to kdenlive for example, but not so much for what it can do but for the user interface which I found superior, and I was even willing to BUY it when it was for sale but damned if I'll pay a monthly extortion fee.
@Smokeydope Please understand that a PSU is rated at the total power it can supply to 5v and 12v lines combined, but it can not supply that full power to both. And in my experience many brands of PSUs do not live up to their ratings. If you're going to run a "beefy" GPU and CPU, I suggest going with 1000 watt or 1200 watt supply. If you are worried about an efficiency then go with a Platinum, they provide good efficiency even at low load levels. This will give you the overhead you need for your machine to run without strain.
@kyub@perishthethought Installed and will give it a try next time I acquire something I want to rip (which is basically any CD I acquire as the computer is more convenient than a CD player and CD-rot has eaten some of my 80's vintage CDs).
@LandedGentry You can partition a thumb drive and install just as if it was a hard drive. I create thumb drives this way mainly for restoration of a system is something gets broken to where it can't boot, kernel corrupted, initramfs, etc.
@Mirokhodets Perhaps because nvme requires different treatment than a rotary drive and so is treated as a different device. I'm not psychic or at least not to the degree necessary to read the developers mind, but if it were I that would be why I would do so.
@communism Only difference between a "server" distro and a "desktop" distro are what packages are included, and given that most all distros put all the packages on their repositories you can start with any and tailor to your needs.
@nichtburningturtle The Pentium II is 32-bit and possesses an MMU, so provided you have adequate memory, pretty much any 32-bit distro such as puppy linux or antix should work fine. Newer Ubuntu which is now 64-bit only will not.
@gpstarman I only use Asus and Gigabyte boards, both have the ability to flash the BIOS using the maintenance engine on the board without even having a CPU or memory installed, let alone an OS booted.
@GnuLinuxDude I mostly use HP printers because with Linux they are always plug-in-play and because although they will provide a message telling me my ink is cheap third party ink, they will none the less accept and print with it.
The model I previously used, HP OfficeJet 5258 All-in-One Printer, the printer always worked well but the scanners kept breaking. I went through four of these before I tried an Epson. The Epson initially worked with 3rd party ink then after a software update didn't so at that point I trashed it and bought another HP, this time a HP OfficeJet 8015e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer which is much more robustly constructed. In fact while taking it out of the box, I accidentally dropped it from chest level and all it did was bounce, no pieces broke off, nothing. So far it has been reliable both for scanning and printing although the scanner is easier to jam but at least it doesn't break in the process of my unjamming it.
@TCB13 Problem is by being one big bloatware, rather than a set of small discrete tools, if one part of it misbehaves, your entire system is toast instead of just removing, replacing, or fixing that one part. That's why that philosophy belongs in Windows NOT Linux.
@TCB13@petsoi It seems to me that systemd is going the exact opposite of the original Unix philosophy of make a tool for a specific task, make it do it's task well, and then use the necessary tools for the job, systemd is becoming one big piece of bloatware that gets in the way of use rather than helps it.
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