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Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)
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Le 23-11-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:36:35 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

Wow. You made me read and answer to replies to the only two shitholes I'm
plonking (not in the chrisv sense, in the real sense) in a raw. It's
impressive.

> I only back up my OS files, which total about 100G.

Yes, that's the ultimate proof your computer is really useless. Thanks
for it. I can download and install any distro in a matter of hours. When
my work would be lost for ever if it wasn't saved. And the CD I bought
would took me days or months to find again if I didn't ripped them.

So, this only sentence is the ultimate proof you are lying when you
pretend you are involved in anything. Nothing more need to be said about
your crap. But I'm want to have fun, so, I won't stop there. Sorry, it's
not nice from my part, but it's funny.

You are explaining that when your system is working, it's by accident
and not on purpose. So you have to save it to be sure you are able to
have another working computer each time you break it. Because you aren't
sure you would be able to reinstall it from scratch. I won't tell you
that anyone could install Linux in a matter of minutes with a simple
distro because it would be too hard on you.

And, by the way, 100G is very much for a distro. Do you really know why
you need that much space? When someone is asking, I say 20G is enough
for the distro, 50 is large to be comfortable. But 100G for a useless
minimalistic distro is impressive. Did you put an average number or do
you have an explanation?

> All of my data, i.e. books, documents, music, videos,
> programs, etc., I have already backed up onto USB HDD
> and BDR and other optical media.

Yes, of course you saved everything important long ago and you never
managed to have new books (by the way, I know you don't know what a book
is used for), new video or new music (no, the programs don't count: you
didn't wrote them, so they belong to your distro). As your computer is
useless, you can use very old backups to recover your files.

> In case of a disk failure, which I have NEVER experienced
> before,

That's something I can't believe. You are too old for that. Except if you
change your disks every year, you should have experienced a failure
before. On the other way, I can believe you experienced a hard drive
failure before without understanding what it was.

> I am only 100G away from salvation and this is barely a hiccough.

Yes, another proof you don't understand what you are speaking about.
There are two main issues with Ubuntu. The first one is slap. But, it
can be avoided. The second issue is: it's for beginners, so it install a
lot of things you don't know why. The purpose is for the beginners to be
able to use it without knowledge. So everything a beginner could need is
installed by default. Which makes a pretty huge distro. But well under
the 50M on the disk space. When you start to master your computer, you
know what you want and why. So you don't install everything by default,
you only install what you'll need. Which is the purpose of a
minimalistic distro.

But 100G for a minimalistic distro is twice the size of the Ubuntu
distro with a lot of useless crap installed after the huge default. What
on earth are you doing with all that space? Did you said 100G because
you are unable to know the size of your distro? Are you saving your
logs and your temporary files? Can you stop in the ways you are making
me laugh?

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