2023-09-18, 05:09 PM
I got my hands on a nice i5 machine that had loads of SATA ports and USB3 ports on board, as well as a bunch of USB 2 that I can use as over flow.
It was in a horrible case, but I remembered I had been holding onto the metal of a nice case for many years so I dug it out the store room. I currently have 8GB RAM but am working on getting some bigger sticks.
Question is, do I go for trusty old Debian 11, or is Debian 12 a better choice now? I have found some GPUs are not supported yet in Debian 12 (thank you Nvidia). But I do also find Debian 12 with Plasma has a lower resource footprint than Debian 11 with Plasma. I know, as I have two laptops, one with 12 and one with 11, and each has all the exact same software installed and setup.
I also have a spare 64GB SSD lying around. I was thinking (and I know everyone is going to freak, but I don't care if it dies) to set it up with one massive SWAP partition.
I have a 1TB Hybrid Drive, which I know how to tweak to get the best boot up spead out of it, and I have piles and piles and piles of drives ranging from 1TB - 4TB, with plenty of external cases for the drives that don't fit. I prefer to use smaller drives, as I tried getting a bigger drive once and it crashed. Loosing 12TB of media was not a happy event. I didn't care that it was under warranty... it took me years to collect all that. I would rather loose a small bit at time. Plus I am now keeping certain media on two or more drives.
So, now that my over share is over, what do you all think? Debian 11 or Debian 12?
It was in a horrible case, but I remembered I had been holding onto the metal of a nice case for many years so I dug it out the store room. I currently have 8GB RAM but am working on getting some bigger sticks.
Question is, do I go for trusty old Debian 11, or is Debian 12 a better choice now? I have found some GPUs are not supported yet in Debian 12 (thank you Nvidia). But I do also find Debian 12 with Plasma has a lower resource footprint than Debian 11 with Plasma. I know, as I have two laptops, one with 12 and one with 11, and each has all the exact same software installed and setup.
I also have a spare 64GB SSD lying around. I was thinking (and I know everyone is going to freak, but I don't care if it dies) to set it up with one massive SWAP partition.
I have a 1TB Hybrid Drive, which I know how to tweak to get the best boot up spead out of it, and I have piles and piles and piles of drives ranging from 1TB - 4TB, with plenty of external cases for the drives that don't fit. I prefer to use smaller drives, as I tried getting a bigger drive once and it crashed. Loosing 12TB of media was not a happy event. I didn't care that it was under warranty... it took me years to collect all that. I would rather loose a small bit at time. Plus I am now keeping certain media on two or more drives.
So, now that my over share is over, what do you all think? Debian 11 or Debian 12?