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We play movies mostly through our PS4 ... So if theres is any worries about compatibilty on that front- we have it covered!
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Forgive my ignorance of SteamOS?? I had to look it up as I wasn't at all familiar. If you'd done a show on it, it was before my time. I concurr on the optical drive, and especially since Sasha has posted that they use the PS4 Blu-ray for movies. If disc burning ever becomes a necessity, USB drives are dirt cheap. No need for that expense now. I can't wait for the show on OpenMediaVault!! My application will be for backup, as well. I'm thinking it'll be a great solution to combine with your rdiff backup strategy, with the added benefit of being able to air gap/remove USB drives, and then plug them in at backup time. That sort of removes the convenience of scheduled backups, but I'll sacrifice that for the security of air gapped data. ONWARD!!!
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That one was really good looking... I ought to go back and re watch the episode to see which wad my favorite. Although I seem to remember liking them all!
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Okay... so now that the hardware is here, we need to start planning the software. I wonder if Sasha really understands how much work and time this will take :p
I'm still undecided about OS. Debian would be good for rock solid performance and customizability, but Ubuntu would be good for community support.
Here's what I know we need:
- Linux base, gotta be lovely to look at and impressive
- Proprietary nVidia Drivers
- Steam
- PlayOnLinux
- Stage 9 - haha! Because you know I want to try it on this rig! Star Trek special, anyone? Sasha - crack out your uniform!
I'm thinking the main OS will go on the m.2 in a single partition (to avoid Sasha filling up her /boot partition or /var by accident... she just wouldn't know to check), with the SSD mounted on /home. I'll move /tmp into tmpfs (ramdisk).
Thoughts?
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Ubuntu MATE would be the only Ubuntu distro I look at currently for this kind of thing. It isn't having a massive UX flux and we know the sound at least mostly works with it simply enough (I'm glaring at KDE here in condescension.) If MATE runs into problems, then going pure Debian is the best fallback.
Moving `/tmp` to tmpfs is a bit premature IMO. It isn't like the SSD is going to be worn out any time soon with their workloads. +1 to single partition on the root drive, that's all I do.
On my `/home` SSD I still have a small 4 or 8 GB swap partition *just in case*. So that may be something to have on that as well. Even though it should never get touched much, worth having as a fail-safe in case crazy memory starts getting used. Until another stick of RAM can be put in to resolve the problem.
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I've found Ubuntu MATE to be a pretty good distro for me or other experienced users, but it's too unstable. Too many anomalous issues to recommend to someone like Sasha. So I won't even consider Ubuntu MATE for this build. I actually kinda get annoyed with this distro on my personal laptop and will likely switch to Debian.
Will continue to lean slightly toward Debian 9 :)
I'd always move /tmp to tmpfs when the amount of system RAM allows it. Always. Why bother putting something temporary on the drive when you absolutely do not have to? I can think of no reason at all to leave /tmp on the drive.
Yeah, good idea re. swap partition. I should probably set it up on the SSD since it's a 960 GB drive and can spare the space a bit more than the 240 GB m.2.
Cheers!
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