On 21/10/13 01:58 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Now, this is getting interesting; I am very busy and I am doing work with my current laptop, about to die...On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 13:11 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:2 yearsTwo years is relatively old and not relatively new. I had lots of drives that failed after 2 years. My current drives are older than 5 years and ok. However, I'm talking about internal drives that are always on, so gvfs had no negative impact. I guess my USB drive is even not one year in use, but gvfs wasn't good for this drive. Likely that _all_ portable drives by default will do what USB drives nowadays do, they will park after 30 minutes or earlier and gvfs will wake them up, so if you would buy a new laptop, you would experience the same issue. Buy a new drive and turn of auto-parking or don't use gvfs.
In this case, I will have two scenarios:1. Buy another external HDD from amazon (same model) and replace it; I am not sure whether I can do this. I never opened my laptop before and I don't have proper instructions to replace it... 2. Go with another laptop; Acer Laptop with AMD E1-2100 / Radeon 8210 and Windows 8. I have my own doubts that Debian Wheezy stable would fit in this laptop.
In any case, this is a huge distraction to me. At least I know that my data is in danger. I was in the middle of my work and it would be a disaster if I lost my data towards the end of it.
I have two questions:1. If I go with AMD E1-2100 /Radeon 8210 with HDMI outlet (possible two soundcards) and windows 8, how well would Debian do with it? 2. If Debian Wheezy doesn't fit the bill with the Acer Laptop, can anyone recommend another linux? 2. I really want to obtain a distraction free desktop, gvfs seems like part of the game that I am complaining on. Which desktop environments or window managers would be best for me to use without gvfs? KDE, qt-razor, lxde or openbox?
Best Regards, S. Sahin