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[MaloK]

Loll, I have used the latest Cinnamon and nothing is keeping me from going to that, besides...

I'm a Windows Wizard and my job wont let me off it. None of the software involved has a Windows port and every linux version left me deceived.

The best deep analysis tools are nonexistent in linux. And most of the time I saved them with windows. A dos program saved a unix more than once with a simple memory test that unix is not even able providing today.

But I admit If you are used to windows, Linux Mint Cinnamon will bridge that gap and even if linux is not really as bloatless as said... Still bring a clean install with a significant idle cpu load.

The era of the 0% activity cross the board is over on all platforms.

 

[anewbie]

These days they are all just tools of the trade and TBH there is no better or best. I quite like Windows 11 - of course not the ads but it doesn't bother me enough to shell out for the enterprise version so I can get rid of them completely, and now you can have embedded Ubuntu its even easier when using the CLI. And powershell doesn't care if you use / or \ and even recognises commands like ls (but you still have to use Windows style switches). For servers I have been Ubuntu for a long time (although at work its predictably all RHEL) and Mint for desktops. Obvious choice because I was quite early onto the Debian bandwagon. I went off Apple because I lost a couple of Macbooks to the famous fried GPU issue which Apple persistently denied existed.

I honestly don't care what you put me in front of, and my personal storage is set up so that I can be up and running with all my own stuff within minutes on any OS. My only constraint is that I need WIndows for Photoshop and Lightroom - and I never replaced my last Macbook when it committed suicide.

I don't like windows for a lot of reasons from file systems to memory management. I also don't like ms heavy handed push to the cloud and collection of data. Also i hate the gui interface and lack of information on error 'code'. It is fine for playing games but for me that is about it. I certainly won't use it for email or anything 'private'. Of course i also won't use my cell phone for banking or anything critical (but i do read email) beyond phone calls. The various shell for windows are ok and a lot of the basic bsd commands are there if not advertised but it is at best crude.

Tidbit windows tiny tcp buffers (for years) really hurt internet usage - of course these days after years and years of complaint they finally increase the default which I think was under 10k but i dont' remember any longer. Apple also for years had tiny tcp buffers esp in the iphone which (I think) couldn't be tweaked). Really hurt streaming - though also after years of bad streaming performance they finally increased it. Corporate America is great for suing people over adhoc intellectual rights but are incredibly stupid in many ways. (Apple is particularly awful - they frequently sue small family run companies that 'infringe' on names of apples even if these companies existed for 30 years before the first mac).

 

[MaloK]

So after 5-6 hours of copy, I went checking on it , and the cache buffers where empty and everything was flushed and hdd activity at 0.

I open explorer and the source drive had disappeared from the system... oh noooooooooooo, not that... I connected it on another machine and it sure hang at bios detection multiple times.... But after a lucky super slow startup was detected in windows... As a member of a lost array it showed up as bad but that's normal. I put it in the freezer for about 40 minutes.

Reconnected it on the original raid put it on it's left side instead of flat and restarted the copy... it goes trough slow down and knocking per moments... yishhhhhh... But the copy is proceeding and the losses are minimal.

So the first or second generation of WD reds are to take with caution, this raid had a lots of reading per year but I never really erased anything there, so this not very encouraging. Since they where on light uses.

I hope the pro are better than that. 6 years is not that much... And last week they where showing good with no intervention required.

Scary... But the most important is done, the rest I'll consider it as a bonus.