my experience is that through network, it’s just flawless. I turned on my printer and sure there it was. (though this feature just became a huge issue recently :P)

welp, it’s another story how useful is this picture 😄, it just came to my mind and brought me some nostalgia in the meantime towards the artist. (yeah, saying artist in this case is strange, but otherwise who made this is a digital artist, or was, idk how active still)

reminded me of this picture

I like nano tho it has some strange shortcuts

what’s the problem using RST with Linux?

Just asking, my old laptop too has RST, but no problems with Linux. (Granted, the manufacturer’s website states I should install only 8GBs of RAM max and once I used 16GB in it, and had some strange… memory related issues sometimes… with 12, there’s no problem. Tho this wasn’t a Linux problem, my laptop just hanged after booting into anything. (Linux, Windows, memtest, anything, really))

I used to use Ubuntu, but nowadays I just go with Debian for servers (as well), but you said you wish to choose something else, so I can’t give you any meaningful inputs…

I don’t know how real the outdated packages threat, but I would assume, a server never really wants the bleeding edge software and Debian usually gets the critical security updates and patches.

But I’m no expert.

It is true that Bookworm is kinda old now, though.

Also one copy of the data is zero copies and 2 copies is one copy.

ah, just like with beer

noice!

edit: oh, it WON’T work >4GB, misread that at first. Then not really noice in the end :/ Movies could be larger than 4GB (tho kinda rarely, I never go above full hd)

yeah, well, I really need a better backup system, I almost lost my stuff countless times ago. TestDisk saved my ass everytime on more major fuckups, but sooner or later I’ll burn myself…

🤞

Thanks for the tip. Though I wouldn’t mind if it would work on almost anything - even like Android or some older systems. Not a real need, just would be nice if I could plug mymedia drive into anything and watxh stuff from it (maybe even from older, not smart TVs if it’s possible)

will FAT32 work on 2TB volume?

Would it worth, though? I mean, is there a significant difference on IDE between HDD or SSD? With an adapter, SATA speeds on the long run would be bottlenecked by IDE if I’m correct.

without any checking of course, I assumed that machine is “new enough” to have some form of SATA in it, but good point

If you use mechanical hard drive in it, it worth a try to replace it with an SSD. After that, Debian should run much better.

it’s not personal, though. that’s the point

sounds reasonable

o1g

Really the only thing you have to do after installing Windows (if Linux was the first) is to reinstall your bootloader from a live Linux environment.

If it’s Grub, you can look here: https://pendrivelinux.com/restore-grub-after-windows-install/

If I’m right, during the restoration of the bootloader, Grub will find your Windows installation too, and will add it to the menu.