I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it’s been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
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    1 year ago

    Eh? I can’t install because the harddrive died, there’s nothing to install to. Regardless, there’s not been anything new which I’m in love with enough to buy yet and since this happened, the law regarding USB C got passed, so that meant that I wanted a laptop that was good enough to use everyday for writing, the occasional game and lots of media consumption that I could abuse the fuck out of, wouldn’t have to deal with the NVIDIA nightmare and was powered by USB. Maybe it is a high level complain, whatever that means but it’s just an experience that happened to me. At the same time, my older laptop that I had running something lightweight and also used just to download stuff and then send it to my NAS also died. So I was just that person that was unlucky enough to be in a position where I was running what I could off a live CD while on the lookout for a decent replacement. Luckily I’m a carer and so I don’t actually need my laptop for much.

    • Square Singer@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      So getting an €5 USB stick from Amazon is too much to invest?

      You can get a 120GB SSD for your laptop for <€10 and that would give you a better performing PC than what you had before.

      So I don’t really get your point.

      So all in all: Spend €10 on an SSD, borrow an USB stick from a friend and use their PC to flash it with Linux. And now you got a PC that can last another few years.

      Why would you even run this system from a CD? Performance is incredibly bad from the CD and you can’t update or install anything on the CD.

      PS: Didn’t you say you had a “months old” live USB stick? How would running it from a Live CD improve the situation over a much faster Live USB stick?

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
        2·
        1 year ago

        The USB stick is fine, but where am I downloading the stick too. I didn’t know I could get a SSD for cheap? I just hadn’t had a conversation with anyone about it. Ignorance isn’t a crime, is it? This whole thread has been an eye opener to me and I’ve learned of things I didn’t know existed. The live CD is a Fedora USB, I bought a bunch of USB sticks months ago and flashed various different systems to them. Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, Qubes and Tails.

        • Square Singer@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Sorry, it wasn’t meant to be offensive.

          I was just wondering what the issue actually was.

          This makes a bit more sense.

          The probably best way to go would be to get a 2.5" SSD, which should be compatible with your PC if you had a harddrive in it.

          Any one you can get will be better than the HDD you had before. The only relevant point to look for is the capacity, but if you are considering running of a Live CD, I guess you don’t need much.

          Since you already have some sticks, you can just use any of these to install any Linux to the hard drive, then boot off that, download any Linux variant you want, put it on the stick, boot from the stick and install the OS you actually want.

          Since you have multiple sticks, you can even boot from one stick, download the OS you want, install to the other stick and boot from that.