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  • Eh? US chiming in… In the last week I bought a 64gb usb flash drive for $15 and a 12tb usb external hdd for $189.

    Fittingly, the flash drive was for Lubuntu iso, and the hdd was because my other external harddrive was exfat formatted and I didnt want to lose all my TBs of media by reformatting to ext4. (Now my minipc diy media/file server has 18tb… Not a bad scenario.)

    Anyhoo…the external SSDs were super expensive at the store, but I didnt need that. If I were expanding my gaming setup, id be looking at external ssd.












  • Everybody always goes on and on about how great linux is for gaming pcs these days. I recently poked around online to see if my rtx5070ti would be supported and found a bunch of people facing issues, and that Mint and Ubuntu weren’t recommended.

    I dont want the AI nonsense, and Windows/Microslop blows, but I want my new gaming laptop to work correctly for several years given the money I spent on it. I can’t see making the switch when the gpu support is so convoluted.

    Ive had many Linux machines in the past, so that bums me out.

    Edit: someone should make a webpage that automatically reads the hardware and specs of your windows machine and then creates a table of suggested distros. That table should also include “what you’ll lose” that shows which features will become lost or finicky. And it should also include direct download links.

    If the goal is to have morons like myself adopt it, it needs to be basically fool proof and easy. Linux is much better and easier than it was in 2003, but that doesn’t mean it’s two-click easy.