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Written by mcc on 2024-12-26 at 21:12

Okay. Please help me as I ask COMPUTER BABBY QUESTIONS.

I have a Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 (AMD).

It has a 256 GB HD. That's too small. I want to buy a new, bigger one. I have a sense the good hard drives these days are "M.2".

Lenovo's specs page

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t14-gen-3-(14-inch-amd)/len101t0013

doesn't say anything about "M.2". It says the hd is "PCIe".

I run "lshw" to see what's on the computer. It says "NVMe".

How do I find out the bestest fastest aftermarket drive Canada Computers carries that my computer will support

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Written by mcc on 2024-12-26 at 21:14

I only understand computation as the MANIPULATION OF ABSTRACT PLATONIC FORMS. I do not understand this realm where computers are "physical objects" you manipulate with "screwdrivers". I would prefer to use Math to translate my thoughts directly into action, as if I am casting magic spells

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Written by mcc on 2024-12-26 at 21:26

Okay thank you all for explaining. I have one more question: Is there actually, like, a difference between drive vendors. Like if I pick WD vs Samsung vs Lexar (vs… "crucial"?!) will it ever make any difference

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Written by mcc on 2024-12-26 at 23:49

Okay. So I think I have my plans for the hard drive complete. Now here's the shedpainty question:

The old drive has Ubuntu 24.04 on it. I hate it.

Should I trade down to Debian?

Or should I trade up to Pop!_OS?

Will I regret either of these? Will either one, if I just go get a standard usb key installation, cause driver problems with my AMD chipset or secure boot or whatever other junk Lenovo has on board?

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Toot

Written by Ken Milmore on 2024-12-27 at 00:05

@mcc Depends how restless you are. When I was young and restless, I ran #Slackware. Now I am middle aged and sedentary, I run #Debian. For a short interstitial period, I ran #Arch. I couldn't countenance Ub*ntu. They always want to foist some commercial spin on you, web search or snap or whatever, no doubt it will be some AI misery next...

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Descendants

Written by mcc on 2024-12-27 at 00:16

@kbm0 i went Bootleg PPC Redhat -> Bootleg PPC Debian -> Slackware -> Regular Debian -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Kubuntu -> Fake Arch [msys2] -> Ubuntu. Now I am old, and I am just tired of bullshit

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Written by Ken Milmore on 2024-12-27 at 00:25

@mcc I do think of Debian, Arch and Slackware as the trifecta of honest Linux. Arch is the well meaning youngster, Debian the wise old matriarch and Slackware the idealistic old rebel who would never conform. They are each in their own way true to their principles. ✌️🙂

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Written by viq on 2024-12-27 at 15:00

@kbm0 @hisham_hm @mcc there are also Fedora and SuSE of you want a different brand of quite fresh corporate backed Linux distributions. IIRC fedora also has different, uh, flavours (IIRC they call it spins) that do different things, and Fedora Atomic is an interesting approach.

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Written by mcc on 2024-12-27 at 16:52

@viq @kbm0 @hisham_hm I think I might be trying to avoid IBM now.

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