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
    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
      3·
      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.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
        1·
        1 year ago

        Coming back to this, if you ever see me in a thread in the future. Please just assume I’m the dumbest fuck in the world who is in desperate need of your knowledge 🙏

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

          Sorry, at no point did I want to imply that you are dumb or something.

          I just misread your first post and thought you complained that the Ubuntu people don’t give you free hardware. And I’m sorry for jumping to this conclusion without understanding your actual problem correctly.