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@fossguy
Do you plan to use Linux on your next PC?
A question I get a lot as a tech enabler is whether you can buy PC's with Linux installed out of the box instead of Windows.
Apart from building your own, there are a growing number of firms that specialize in selling laptops and desktops with Linux pre-installed, which means you get to stick it to M$ in Redmond by not paying for a license you'll never use. Hope this helps someone.
How much RAM in your Linux PC?
512MB
<1GB
1GB
2GB
4GB
8GB
16GB
32GB
64GB
96GB
128GB
Do you use virtualization technology?
I don't know what that is
No. I -do- know what it is but I have no use case.
No. I want to, but lack RAM, CPU speed/cores, disk space
Yes. Hyper-V on Windows
Yes. KVM on Linux
Yes. Virtualbox on Windows.
Yes. Virtualbox on Linux.
Yes. VMware on Windows.
Yes. VMware on Linux.
Yes. Other, not listed.
https://linux-kvm.org
How to break Microsoft's monopoly
I believe that desktop/laptop computer OEM's should be required to ship their machines configured in one of the following ways:
A) Windows is installed with Linux in a dual-boot configuration
B) When powered on for the first time, the user is offered a choice: - install only one of them - install both of them
C) Regardless of the above, have the 'Recovery Partition' contain the tools necessary to install either, with the option to switch the OS at some time in the future.
It's a dream I have.
Linux Tip of the day 26-04-07
iftop
Display real-time bandwidth usage for a network interface. (Requires elevated privileges.) From 'iftop' package.
There are two kinds of computer users. Those who have lost data & Those who are about to.
Linux Tip of the day 26-04-06
lstopo
Displays the physical topology of your computer (PCI bus, CPU, etc.); from 'hwloc' package
Linux Tip of the day 26-04-05
Cool feature of btrfs file system
Fun fact:
You can convert an existing EXT2/3/4 file system to 'btrfs' in-place.
(Of course you still want to make a backup...)
Does your PC have disk fault tolerance?
No.
WTF is that, and why should I care?
Yes - hardware RAID controller
Yes - Windows - RAID1
Yes - Windows - RAID5
Yes - Intel 'Soft RAID' (some consumer motherboards)
Yes - Linux - kernel RAID (mdadm) + FS directly on RAID device (e.g. /dev/md0)
Yes - Linux - kernel RAID (mdadm) + LVM + FS on LV (logical volume)
Yes - btrfs - RAID1
Yes - zfs - RAID1, RAIDZ1 (1 parity disk), RAIDZ2 (2 parity disks)
There are two kinds of computer users. Those who have lost data, and those who are about to.
Do you make backups?
No - I have never lost data
No - I have lost data, but it wasn't a big deal
No - I have lost data and was a big deal
Wait a second! I'm supposed to make backups?
Yes - data only - free cloud (Gdrive/Onedrive/iCloud, etc.)
Yes - data only - paid cloud (Amazon S3, Backblaze, etc.)
Yes - data only - local removable media / second HDD/SSD
Yes - data only - local NAS
Yes - full system - file-by-file
Yes - full system - image backup
What was the CPU in your first PC (Part 2)
AMD Am386/Am486
AMD K5/K6/K6-2/K6-III
AMD Athlon/Athlon XP
Apple/Advanced RISC Machines Ltd ARM6/ARM7/StrongARM/Xscale)
AMD Athlon64 (K8 arch) / Opteron
Intel Pentium 4 w/EM64T
Intel Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad
Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / i9
AMD FX series (Bulldozer)
AMD Ryzen (Zen series - desktop)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper (Zen series - workstation)
Apple Silicon M-series
What was the CPU in your first PC? (Part 1)
MOS Technology 6502/6510/Western Design Center 65C02
Zilog Z80
Intel 8080/8085
Motorola 6800/6809
Intel 8086 / 8088 / 80186
Intel 80286
Motorola 68000/68010/68020
Texas Instruments TMS9900
Intel 80386 // 80486(SX/DX/DX2/DX4)
Intel Pentium (Pro/II/III/4) / Core 2 Duo
Motorola 68020/68030/68040
Apple/IBM/Motorola PowerPC 60(1/2/3/4)/G3/G4/G5
What's the oldest CPU you've used with Linux
80386
80486
Pentium
Pentium II / Celeron
Pentium III / Celeron
Pentium 4
Ryzen 1000-3000
MIPS
SPARC
HP PA-RISC
IBM POWER
ARM
What file system contains your root directory?
ext2
ext3
ext4
xfs
btrfs
zfs
dm-raid + (your file system)
dm-raid + lvm + (your file system)
NFS
What's a file system?
Linux tenure
How long have you been using Linux?
<1 year
1-2 years
3-5 years
6-10 years
15 years
20 years
25 years
30 years
35 years (you're lying - the kernel was released 34 years ago)
Linux install media survey
What installation media did your first Linux install come on?
What installation media did your first Linux install come on?
5.25" floppy (You're very old)
3.5" floppy (You're still pretty old)
Commercial CD-ROM
Commercial DVD-ROM
Downloaded .ISO burned to CD-ROM
Downloaded .ISO burned to DVD
Downloaded .ISO imaged to USB stick
Other
Always thought it would be fun to have a worm that modifies the boot drive to add a small partition, drops a bare-bones Linux install that then gradually migrates their Windows install to Linux with a Windows UI.