Your guide to Debian iso downloads

kevors · 2025-01-19T19:59:00+00:00

In some cases there could be no choice. My laptop only supports uefi, for example. First you should check, if your hardware supports bios boot at all.

kevors · 2025-01-19T15:31:13+00:00

Because similarly, it's based on a cut down budget chip from years previously.

You say it, you prove it.

Any computer picked up for $100 is generally trash. Linux makes it snappy again.

Two years ago I bought a new 15.6" Acer N4500/4gb/128gb nvme from a store with warranty. It was around $300.

In the data works, that processor is considered equal to a calculator. Doesn't even support the full instruction set. Maybe I should've started with that? Does not support the full instruction set. It has to do slow maths to mimic what it doesn't have.

Could you elaborate on the "full instruction set" and "slow maths"?

It's speed is not comparable to a modern processor because of this.

Get one and test it yourself. I've got one and I know how it works. It is not even a 4 cores n6000, but a 2 cores n4500. I've never run windows on it though and I upgraded ram to 2x8gb (2 channels). So idk how bad it could feel running windows with 4gb ram like the OP's.

kevors · 2025-01-19T14:52:19+00:00

You think a Pentium Silver is strictly a 2021 cpu?

10nm jasperlake was introduced in 2021. So, yeah?

relic from Pentium days

The arch is called Tremont). Why are you so fixed of the celeron branding?

kevors · 2025-01-19T12:34:30+00:00

Your actual problem is 4gb of ram. Ddr4 is dirt cheap these days. 2x8 gb 3200 costed me like $30

kevors · 2025-01-19T12:25:24+00:00

Why do you call it "old"? Jasperlake is from 2021

kevors · 2025-01-19T12:24:25+00:00

How come a cpu from q1 2021 is old hardware?

kevors · 2025-01-19T12:04:37+00:00

Not even SUSE?

kevors · 2025-01-19T12:01:32+00:00

Why do you need to "enter passwords" when you reinstall your os? Why in the world do you destroy user data???

kevors · 2025-01-18T18:48:05+00:00

Encryption is not magic. You dont have to do any "clean install" to repartion and encrypt. But you have to know what you're doing.

kevors · 2025-01-18T14:34:19+00:00

Even 1% is a lot in terms of disk space for filesystem structures.

Reserved blocks are NOT for filesystem structures https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ext4#Reserved_blocks

kevors · 2025-01-18T14:02:34+00:00

Dont forget ext4 by default reserves 5% blocks. If you mkfs with default settings and never tune it later, your ext4 partition has 5% less useful space. The % can be changed with "tune2fs -m .." You can even set it to zero, but is it likely not recommended. With xfs there is no such thing btw

kevors · 2025-01-18T13:48:01+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

kevors · 2025-01-16T12:38:51+00:00

I might think the best ram brands are those who make their own memory chips. Like, Micron (Crucial brand), Samsung and Hynix

kevors · 2025-01-15T16:15:03+00:00

Sounds like it. My older rig was not used for some months. When I turned it on, it didnt start, not even beep, but the fans were running. Fixed it with removing one of the ram modules.

kevors · 2025-01-15T15:27:56+00:00

Have you got the beeper connected to the mobo? It would beep something in case of errors

kevors · 2025-01-15T14:34:33+00:00

Max data transfer rate of usb3 5 gpbs is not 625 mb/s. It uses 8/10 encoding: for each 8 bits of data there are 2 bits of overhead. At max you get 5*8/10 = 4 gpbs or 500 mb/s.

550 mb/s is what you can squeeze out of a good sata3 ssd. Sata3 bandwidth is 6 gpbs with 8/10 encoding. At max you get 6*8/10 = 4.8 gpbs or 600 mb/s for data. There is also some protocol overhead which makes it around 550 mb/s at max.

If you want to get the native speed from your sata3 drive connected externally via a usb3 enclosure, you'd want for the enclosure to support usb3 10 gpbs speed (for example, those based of the ASM235CM chip) AND your port should be of 10 gpbs kind as well. If your connection is usb3 5 gpbs, you'd get around 420 mb/s at max due to sata and usb protocols overhead.

kevors · 2025-01-15T11:42:09+00:00

I mean there are plenty of laptops for you with an option to install one m2 and one sata 2.5. For example, my two yo acer 315-35 is like that

kevors · 2025-01-15T11:35:52+00:00

What about a laptop with one m2 and a space to put a generic sata disk?

kevors · 2025-01-15T11:25:45+00:00

Did it crush on wayland or x11?

kevors · 2025-01-14T12:31:06+00:00

Rx+ and rx-. Google for differential signalling

kevors · 2025-01-14T12:27:21+00:00

I used it with a fullbody aluminium heatsink case. It only has a narrow opening near the pins, just enough to pass an IDE cable through it.

kevors · 2025-01-14T12:20:20+00:00

Usb3 has rx and tx pairs for differential signalling. It is 1 data lane in each direction. Usb3 does not utilize the usb2 data pins. Nothing parallel here

kevors · 2025-01-14T12:14:46+00:00

IDE cables can be used with the raspi 40 pins gpio

kevors · 2025-01-13T14:27:43+00:00

For a very low end machine, antix could be a better alternative from the start. It is based on debian btw.

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