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Colonel Panic
You’re right Brian (and thanks for the compliments). Another thing you can do with a Linux distro that you can’t do in Windows is take a hard drive with the OS installed and working on it, put it into a different machine, connect it up and reboot and have it working. Linux will autodetect the new hardware configuration when it boots up and start as it did on the old machine.
- This reply was modified 2 months ago by Colonel Panic.
- This reply was modified 2 months ago by Colonel Panic.
Brian Masinick
You’re right Brian (and thanks for the compliments). Another thing you can do with a Linux distro that you can’t do in Windows is take a hard drive with the OS installed and working on it, put it into a different machine, connect it up and reboot and have it working. Linux will autodetect the new hardware configuration when it boots up and start as it did on the old machine.
To your point, I’ve taken my antiX system, created a snapshot of whatever I had on one computer, and installed it in another place, either on the same computer in a different partition, on another completely different computer, or a third option, run from that snapshot on any system that can run from a USB drive.
Those are appealing, useful options, at least to me.
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Brian MasinickRobin
But its not just the machines that are treated as useless junk, its also the PEOPLE that own them…
We cannot forget that the person had to work to be able to buy the computer that became obsolete for the big corporations. These same corporations produce a product with an estimated date to become obsolete, making consumers their slaves.
We have a saying for this in our country, (it rhymes in the original).
„What runs forever doesn’t make us money.”
and
„Main thing is, it runs until we are paid.”Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
Brian Masinick
You’re right Brian (and thanks for the compliments). Another thing you can do with a Linux distro that you can’t do in Windows is take a hard drive with the OS installed and working on it, put it into a different machine, connect it up and reboot and have it working. Linux will autodetect the new hardware configuration when it boots up and start as it did on the old machine.
To your point, I’ve taken my antiX system, created a snapshot of whatever I had on one computer, and installed it in another place, either on the same computer in a different partition, on another completely different computer, or a third option, run from that snapshot on any system that can run from a USB drive.
Those are appealing, useful options, at least to me.
I wrote about this earlier today and realized that I haven’t created or used a snapshot in a few months.
I have a nice configuration here, so I started a snapshot. It was going well, but it failed due to a lack of space.
I have enough browsers and cache to use up quite a bit of space, so I got rid of five or six of them that I don’t use
very often, and that gave me enough room for a snapshot.I created it and now I’m running the same software I was using earlier; in fact, I’m even using my Firefox Nightly build that
I was running when I wrote my previous post here; I know that because when I opened Firefox Nightly on this snapshot
it brought me right to this thread, believe it or not.I had to go to my terminal, which was also intact, and even in the remembered workspace and position that were
also saved. The only difference was that when I ran df, I could see that I was running from my sda device,
which is a USB instead of my NVME SSD. Otherwise it’s virtually the same.I’ll try this out later on another system; I anticipate that it will work fine there too.
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Brian MasinickI don’t really know much about snapshots, but they’re useful things to be able to have and, thanks to your reply and reminder, I’ve just made one of my current (Legacy OS 2023) setup; my first ISO snapshot of any distro ever. (It came out at 5 GB so a little too big for burning off to a DVD, but it should fit just fine on a pendrive).
Brian Masinick
I have a 64 GB USB (and I think I may have one with even more capacity).
I multi-boot though so the size of my partition is limited and on top of that I have it pretty full so I removed a lot of stuff to make room for the ISO snapshot.
I was very happy with the results. I was using it for an hour or two just like the original distribution and it works fine.
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