It doesn't have to be fancy as long as you have a practical use case. And it's worth mentioning that the "fancy" stuff is often easier on linux than on windows.
vettnerk
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Awesome! I'm one of the guys peer pressuring you in the other thread, and I'm glad to see it worked.
It also just so happened that you went for the same distro that I use on my desktop.
What's going to be the primary use of this laptop other than having linux installed? Any projects or use cases in mind? I'm asking because I found out some time around the turn of the century hat the best way to learn linux is to use it for something one would otherwise do in Windows.
The pope, on the other hand...
Linux is very picky when it comes to attached storage. Seeing as it's an external drive, especially when it comes to ntfs, something linux will usually refuse to automount if the filesystem is detected as not being clean. Clean in this context means that it was unmounted properly last time it was use.
When a filesystem is mounted, a flag is set. This flag is then unset upon a proper unmount. When you yank the drive without unmounting first, this flag will remain, and the filesystem will therefore be considered as unclean, and will require manual intervention. This is a feature that has the potential to prevent dataloss if there are worse things at play.
Try to plug in the drive and run dmesg - It might tell you if an unclean filesystem was detected, or any other issues.
An unclean filesystem is usually fixed by running fsck.
As much as I would love that, its use would be very limited without widespread adaption of software or hardware support.
I'm not a fan of kink-shaming, but that is objectively funny. I choose to believe he was also into balloon-bestiality by sometimes going squiggee-fnurp-scratch-tadaa and producing balloon animals as part of the foreplay
Former sound engineer here. Yes, that's the correct title, but no, that's not our doing (not mine at least). I want as many people as possible to reasonably be able to enjoy my output, regardless whether they have a 40000$ home cinema, or if they're on a cheap TV.
I know that some directors (Christopher Nolan) tend to want to produce "best" quality at the expense of those who don't care. See Tenet as an example.
Plus the dev-hours spent combating ad blockers are billable. My hours aren't.
Nothing radical, but I've used mplayer as default video player since FreeBSD 4.0, and that's not changing any time soon. VLC is good and all, I just prefer mplayer.
Oh, and for general purpose storage partitions I use XFS, as it plays nice with beegfs.
When I worked on a ship, we coordinated with the other 12-hour shift so both of us got 30 minutes of the offending hour.
Or migrate to blender