On 2021-05-27, Walter Dnes wrote:
> All current XPS models seem to have 256G or 512G M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid
> State drives in the base configuration. Questions...
>
> * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)?
Yes. The kernel has supported NVMe drives for ages (since kernel
On 2021-05-27, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:35:33PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote
>
>> PS: I agree on the linux bloatiness, I have 4G of RAM on my personal
>> laptop and it begins to run out sometime???
>
> Showing my age... I started using linux on a spare machine with
> 16
On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12
On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12
On 5/27/21 4:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Showing my age... I started using linux on a spare machine with 16
***MEGA***bytes of ram approx year 1999 or 2000, and the ram was
perfectly sufficient.
Yep. I did similar.
Though I think /what/ is done *and* /how/ it is done are significantly
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:35:33PM +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote
> PS: I agree on the linux bloatiness, I have 4G of RAM on my personal
> laptop and it begins to run out sometime???
Showing my age... I started using linux on a spare machine with
16 ***MEGA***bytes of ram approx year 1999 or 2000,
On 5/27/21 3:05 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
All current XPS models seem to have 256G or 512G M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid
State drives in the base configuration. Questions...
* do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)?
I've not had any problems with them. They do show up as a
On Thu 27 May 2021 17:05:07 GMT, Walter Dnes wrote:
> * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)?
I have a NVMe drive on my corporate laptop (a lenovo) and I don’t have
any issue with it.
PS: I agree on the linux bloatiness, I have 4G of RAM on my personal
laptop and it
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:05:07 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
> quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
> need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
> Dell Inspirons seem
It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to
quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I
need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October.
Dell Inspirons seem to top out at 12 gigs ram, so I'm looking for an XPS
model in
On Tue, May 25, 2021, at 2:02 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:43:00 BST antlists wrote:
> > On 25/05/2021 16:23, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > 4. I have the existing ESP mounted on /boot. It belongs to Windows and
> > > cannot be enlarged beyond 100MB.
> >
> > I don't know
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:01:27 BST Michael wrote:
> I found choosing a tool which is a best fit for the user requirements is
> usually easier than trying to bend a less suitable tool to do what you
> desire. If a boot menu at *each* start up is a must, have you given
> syslinux any
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 09:22:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:49:01 BST Michael wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Thanks for the offer, Michael, but let me clear a few things up first.
> > >
> > > 1. I don't use symlinks in
On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:49:01 BST Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Thanks for the offer, Michael, but let me clear a few things up first.
> >
> > 1. I don't use symlinks in /boot.
>
> This allows a simpler single boot partition (ESP) &
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