My Local Machine is a Mini PC with has a 500GB drive and 16GB RAM and came with Ubuntu installed.
Things on my "I Do Not" list:
According to the Linux Mint Installation Guide, during install I will be given the opportunity to make some choices. If I choose to install "something else", I will have the...
What the recommended size of SwapFile and/or
During installation, LM22 it will create a (default) 2GB file or Not. No clear answer either way.
Recommend to be same size as RAM
Double the size of RAM
or etc, etc, etc.
What seems to affect my computer proformance (LM22) the most is Amazon Prime Video. Amazon (site) moves along while browsing/shopping. Also selecting Prime (Home) & browsing for a movie, all good. Select a movie to Play... might get there in a couple of minutes. IF it plays it will be interrupted by spooling. Will a large Swapfile help this? like 4GB or more?
All the rest of tasks/apps I use I have tested on my Thumb Drive and preform well. Efficiency should increase when I am using LM22 on this local machine.
Size vs available room is not a problem with at least 400GB's beyond the OS and apps (and/or apps I may want to install later).
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Data stored on external USB Drives of various sizes from 32GB to 2TB
Data Drive Format: NTSF
Must have Read/Write/Share access to User Data Files in Linux and Windows.
ie data files .ods & .odt and other formats need to be read/write/share for both platforms. I use LibreOffice on both Linux Mint22 and Windows 11.
I have one program that is Windows Only. This the only reason I will keep one windows machine off-line. I may use it less than 1% of the time but it is a "Must Have". I have used it for approx two decades. I have know the developers and owners the entire time and there are no plans to add a Linux version. Their efforts are a cloud version (which looks real good and I am doing some testing for them). I prefer not to use cloud based for various reasons of which one of the least is my unrelable internet. I do have very fast FiberOptic - if/when I have service. Another reason would be, intrrupting a movie is one thing, but losing connection to a database that MUST be open during production cannot be tolerated. I still am going for 100% no Microsoft. I'll be happy at 99% for a wile more.
Thank you for your comments, recommendations and observations.
Things on my "I Do Not" list:
- Dual Booting
- VM's
- Play Games
- Play movies like mp4 etc.
- and... Not storing any User Data on the OS drive. Data files that may be created by apps like Temp files will be left to their default locations.
According to the Linux Mint Installation Guide, during install I will be given the opportunity to make some choices. If I choose to install "something else", I will have the...
- Choice: Erase Everything - Yes
- Choice: Formatting - ext4
- Choice: Partitioning - 1 unless SwapFile is considered a partition, then 2
- Choice: SwapFile- Yes?, Size? and is it considered a partition?
What the recommended size of SwapFile and/or
During installation, LM22 it will create a (default) 2GB file or Not. No clear answer either way.
Recommend to be same size as RAM
Double the size of RAM
or etc, etc, etc.
What seems to affect my computer proformance (LM22) the most is Amazon Prime Video. Amazon (site) moves along while browsing/shopping. Also selecting Prime (Home) & browsing for a movie, all good. Select a movie to Play... might get there in a couple of minutes. IF it plays it will be interrupted by spooling. Will a large Swapfile help this? like 4GB or more?
All the rest of tasks/apps I use I have tested on my Thumb Drive and preform well. Efficiency should increase when I am using LM22 on this local machine.
Size vs available room is not a problem with at least 400GB's beyond the OS and apps (and/or apps I may want to install later).
-----------------
Data stored on external USB Drives of various sizes from 32GB to 2TB
Data Drive Format: NTSF
Must have Read/Write/Share access to User Data Files in Linux and Windows.
ie data files .ods & .odt and other formats need to be read/write/share for both platforms. I use LibreOffice on both Linux Mint22 and Windows 11.
I have one program that is Windows Only. This the only reason I will keep one windows machine off-line. I may use it less than 1% of the time but it is a "Must Have". I have used it for approx two decades. I have know the developers and owners the entire time and there are no plans to add a Linux version. Their efforts are a cloud version (which looks real good and I am doing some testing for them). I prefer not to use cloud based for various reasons of which one of the least is my unrelable internet. I do have very fast FiberOptic - if/when I have service. Another reason would be, intrrupting a movie is one thing, but losing connection to a database that MUST be open during production cannot be tolerated. I still am going for 100% no Microsoft. I'll be happy at 99% for a wile more.
Thank you for your comments, recommendations and observations.
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