That’s a good call out. My user case allows me to terminate the phone app after it syncs, and battery doesn’t seem to be hit hard even if I forget. But it’s important to look at, and it might not work for you.

Resilio sync is outstanding

It’s free for personal use, but the license process is annoying (email)

But they’re preempting a problem they’ve never had. Certainly you can understand that, right?

Probably Gabe Newell

The best option is to get a new hard drive. You can find one for $100.

Then just connect your old drive to the PC with a USB to SATA adapter and copy any files you need.

With the extra drive there is no risk to your data from the install as long as you DON’T CONNECT THE OLD DRIVE DURING THE INSTALL PROCESS, since you could conceivably choose the wrong install disk. If it’s not plugged in then you can’t choose it

Humble bundle is not humble games, based on another comment

You’re getting good advice here.

“Bricking” though normally means turning a software problem into a hardware problem. You just have a software problem, which is infinitely easier to fix.

Don’t fret.

Ahh! Cool! Thanks for the explanation.

Is hardlink the same as ln without the -s switch?

I tried reading the page but it’s not clear

How come?

Such an awesome project.

I think I do like reddit better.

Lol. Ok. Weird way to introduce yourself, but you’re welcome to stay if you decide you want to.

Can this replace the need for a seed box?

Or Picasa

I cannot recommend using Oracle.

Ever.

For any reason.

They are malignant, and you will regret this decision.

I didn’t know what leap was, and the news release didn’t tell me.

Going to the website says that it’s a “brand new way of building openSUSE and a new type of a hybrid Linux distribution”

I’m still not sure what that means, but that’s all I got.

They track all that

I boycott any game that has seasons

Fuck that

I really like your posts; thank you.

Can you help me understand how atomic distros work when you need to, for example, install a small script which is unsupported in the packaging, but takes liberties by creating folders or assuming some kind of file structure?

You’re getting a lot of good advice. Whatever distro you decide to use, try to find a live CD that lets you use it on the PC without installing it. That should ease your mind tremendously.