Personal computing discussed
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Redocbew wrote:About NTFS, I dunno. I've never tried it. My Google-fu tells me there's support for it, but if you're not going to be dual-booting there's no real reason to keep the drives as NTFS.
TheEmrys wrote:Do I want Ubuntu Desktop or Server? I suspect server as I want to run it headless, but I have no idea the options in desktop. If desktop will give me read/write access to folders as well as let me log in remotely, do I really need Server?
cheesyking wrote:Also, I'd stick with 18.04 rather than trying any non lts version.
TheEmrys wrote:Drive D: has had all the data copied from it to a USB HD that was formatted with exFAT. D: has now been reformatted in FAT as I want my Windows machine to have access to it through the network. Could ext4 been a better option? I wasn't sure, so I went with the safe choice.
TheEmrys wrote:Drive D: has had all the data copied from it to a USB HD that was formatted with exFAT. D: has now been reformatted in FAT as I want my Windows machine to have access to it through the network.
Since NTFS drives are read-only in Linux, does my above plan make sense?
TheEmrys wrote:I was reminded about the FAT restriction for file size when I was copying some TV shows over. The DVR function of Plex creates huge files. 6 GB for an hour show. So, I moved everything back, reformatted the drive into ext4 and am in the process of copying over the files now. 2 hours to go. Samba. Is this something for my desktop with Win10 or for the Linux box? To Google, I go.
TheEmrys wrote:Linux is frustrating.
Okay, current issues:
1. Installed nvidia drivers. Cannot get any resolution over 1024x768. Also, control panel thingy (Nvidia X?) is blank. Tried an older driver, no change.
2. Folders aren't being shared. Installed Samba. Set it up, but it isn't visible on my network. Could be related to #4.
3. Hauppauge tv tuner isn't showing up as needing a device driver, but it isn't working either.
4. Plex can't see the libraries. Apparently, even after mounting the drives and seeing the folders, Linus still needs permissions.
Time to slay some dragons.
roncat wrote:As other people mentioned, I would install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server, and use command line.