This is my first time hearing about zram. I tried looking into it myself but there’s still some things I could find answers to. Are there any downsides to using zram, or is it something that I can set and forget about? If I were to be using compression tools, like 7zip, would I be able to use a higher dictionary size than I normally can, or would zram cause problems outside of potentially slower compression speeds?

Edit: I think I’m just going to test this myself. I’ve been reading more about zram and alternatives and it seems like there’s conflicting information.

I don’t know what most of those numbers mean but most of them are 0 and the overall assessment says “Disk is OK”, so I guess it wasn’t used much in the past two years. “program-fail-count-total” has a value of 94669670143499 but I’m not sure if that’s actually bad or not because “program-fail-count” is 0.

Also, as I stated before, I’m still going to prioritize my slower hard drives so I’m not stuck with them if the SSD fails before I can buy a faster drive.

I know it would be better to move Linux Mint to the internal hard drive but I’m keeping it on the external hard drive just because I don’t know how stable the SSD is. On top of the fact that I’ve heard that SSD are less stable than mechanical drives, I don’t know if the hard drive was replaced when it was refurbished and if it wasn’t, I don’t know how much it was used. I also want to prioritize my slower external hard drives so that way I’m not potentially stuck using these older hard drive, or even my much slower USB storage devices, several years from now.

Also, I ran a benchmark test on the SSD and it’s nowhere near as fast as I though it would be. The read speed is only around 520 MB/s and the Write speed is around 470 MB/s. This isn’t much faster than my current external hard drive which has somewhere around 300 MB/s for both, it’s been a while since I last tested it.

I just realized that my post is missing context if you only read just this post and not the one I linked to in the post. I have Linux installed on an external hard drive and Windows was installed to the SSD which is in the laptop. I’ve added this information to the post but I don’t need help with this anymore. I’ve already removed Windows from the SSD and have reformatted it to ext4 so I can run games from it.

Why?

If this is meant for the other user, you replied to the wrong comment.

If you meant to respond to me, I don’t need this. I’ve already removed Windows from the hard drive and I plan on using either Tiny10 or Tiny11 on this computer when I get a new computer to run Linux on in the future.

I didn’t need to do this. I never used Windows on this computer, so I didn’t have data to backup. I’ve already removed Windows from the SSD and reformatted it. I’m also keeping Linux Mint installed on the external hard drive because it runs fine from the external hard drive and I just want to run games from the SSD.

I already checked the other day, it’s on my external hard drive. Also, I’ve already removed Windows from the internal hard drive and reformatted it, so I don’t need help with this anymore.

I’d imagine that you can just clone your slower SSD and copy it over to your M2 drive but I’ve never cloned a hard drive before, so I’m probably not the best person to be asking. It might be best to create a new post for this, it’ll get seen by more people that way.

That’s not a problem for me. I’ve never had to manually add an OS to Grub before.

I didn’t need to. On top of the fact that I’ve never used Windows on this computer and I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, the Windows installation needed to be repaired as my laptop’s CMOS battery died a while back and it made both Linux Mint and Windows 10 unbootable. I was able to repair Linux Mint’s installation through the LiveCD but, while I do know how to because I’ve done it on other computers, I never saw a reason to repair Windows as well and originally intended to wait until I got a new PC.

Didn’t need to. On top of the fact that I’ve never used Windows on this computer and I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, the Windows installation needed to be repaired as my laptop’s CMOS battery died a while back and it made both Linux Mint and Windows 10 unbootable. I was able to repair Linux Mint’s installation through the LiveCD but, while I do know how to because I’ve done it on other computers, I never saw a reason to repair Windows as well and originally intended to wait until I got a new PC.

I don’t have much experience with Arch but I did briefly use EndeavorOS in a virtual machine. While I didn’t use it enough to form a proper opinion on it, it did seem pretty good and it’ll probably be what I use if I need an Arch-based distro (which I think I might but I don’t remember what it was I needed Arch for).

Okay thanks. I wasn’t sure if it would freak out at boot or something due to the missing OS.

I currently don’t have a use/need for a 32bit Linux distro but I do believe that one with support should always exist. I normally recommend Q4OS to people who need a 32bit Linux distro but they’re only going to be supporting the 32bit version for 2 more years. There was some discussion about 32bit distros a while back and it seems like all or at least most distros are doing something similar. While loss32 is just a proof of concept, I would support it if it actually did release because for as long as old 32bit computers exist, there will be a need for 32bit operating systems.

Edit: I realize that I missed the actual point of loss32 but I’m not deleting my comment.

I’m not sure if I understand what your issue is but if I am correctly understanding, what I would try is setting up a virtual desktop in Wine. You can do this by running winecfg in a terminal to open Wine’s configuration application, add GTA 2’s executable to the applications tab, select it so that you are only changing settings for GTA 2 and not everything, then go to the graphics tab, select emulate a virtual desktop and set the desktop size to the resolution you want.

I’m not sure about buffalo wings because I haven’t had any recently but I do know that I do have a noticeable spice tolerance. For some hot sauces, like sriracha, I do need a good amount per bite before I can actually notice it.

I have seen distros that offer methods for installing Linux directly from Windows but I wouldn’t use them. Live CDs are a good way to test if that distro, or even Linux in general, will work properly on that computer. For example, if you installed Linux on a computer with a WiFi adapter that Linux doesn’t currently support, you wouldn’t have known this if you just installed Linux directly from Windows without testing it first and there is no simple solution to this problem.

Now, if you could install Linux onto an external hard drive from Windows, then this might be fine because you’d have a dual boot between the two OSs and can easily fallback to Windows if Linux doesn’t work properly. However, as far as I’m aware, you’d still need to boot into the bios and change the boot loader so that Linux can actually boot.

Vogons is still actively used. I’m also aware of some other forums but I don’t feel comfortable mentioning them even though I use some of them occasionally.

If that’s the case then why don’t I have this issue with other flatpaks?