![]() ![]() One computer has only Linux installed on it.Ī second computer is triple-booting Windows XP, Vista, and Linux. I have what is probably an unusual mix of setups regarding Linux and Windows on the same computers. I have plenty of storage space, so the little bit that Windows uses is trivial, and I figure it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. I don’t use Windows anymore other than testing things (to compare the bare-metal performance to that of Linux) and for reference. The F8 got the slow HDD, while the slow SSD went into the desktop, and I moved the Windows installation there to free up a faster SSD for more Linux stuff. I quickly removed those in favor of a speedy NVMe x4 250GB SSD and the 1TB SATA SSD from my Asus F8, which was formerly one of my daily-use PCs. The G3 came initially with that slow SSD (by SSD standards) and a slow 1TB hard drive (by any standards). The slowest of the SSDs, a Hynix 128GB M.2 unit (SATA) in a 2.5 inch adapter, is now home to Windows 8.1. It wasn’t part of the plan for the desktop to end up with so many SSDs… initially, it had a 128GB SSD and a hard drive, but I managed to accumulate more SSDs, so why not use them? I have dual Intel and Marvell SATA adapters on my motherboard, allowing me to connect up to 12 SATA devices, and it’s a full tower case, so I may as well! On the desktop, I’ve got three SSDs and one 3 TB HDD installed. On the Swift, Windows is relegated to half of the onboard 64 GB eMMC (slower) storage, while the other half and the faster 1 TB SSD are for Linux. ![]() On the G3, I have a total of 1250 GB (1.25 TB) of storage between the two SSDs, and 1200 of the 1250 are for Linux. As such, both have a vestigial Windows 10 installation present, but they’ve been crammed into the smallest partitions possible. The two laptops are relatively recent, purchased within the last couple of years, so they are both new enough to have been subject to the pre-Windows-10 embargo on newer CPU architectures, which means that running any other version of Windows on them is troublesome. I also have a 13.3″ Acer Swift laptop and a desktop. Right now I am writing this on my Dell G3 15.6″ gaming laptop. I have way too many PCs, but there are three that I use on a daily basis. I’ve got three external hard drives and a backup server on my LAN (really just a spare PC with a lot of hard drives installed) for making backups, and backups on top of those backups. I do have a secondary installation of Kubuntu LTS to act as a fallback in case something happens with Neon, and I do many backups, so I can recover from disaster if one should take place. It will be the base of the next Kubuntu release, 20.04, due in April. KDE Plasma (the desktop environment made by KDE) has improved a ton since the most recent Kubuntu LTS. As far as the KDE software itself, though, it’s been getting less buggy over time as KDE has really focused on fixing bugs and improving the quality of life issues. Normally I am biased toward the stability of more QA and more testing before trusting software, and that’s why I like the LTS base of Neon. After a new version of KDE software passes KDE’s QA, it gets released as Neon User, but before it can become a part of (for example) Kubuntu, it will be tested further by the Ubuntu devs who maintain Kubuntu, so you get more QA with Kubuntu, but the wait for the latest versions of KDE software is longer. It works pretty well as an actual distro, though, if you’re prepared to accept that you’re pretty much on your own for support, and that there’s one less layer of QA for the KDE software than you would get with Kubuntu or similar. Neon itself (even the User edition) is not envisioned by KDE as a full-fledged distro, but kind of as a technology demo for their latest software versions. The User edition is a minimal installation of Ubuntu but with the newest KDE Plasma and application suite releases, while the Dev releases have pre-release versions of KDE software for testing. All three of them are based on the latest Ubuntu LTS, like Mint. It’s the most stable of the KDE Neon versions (the other two are the Stable Developer and Unstable Developer versions). ![]()
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