Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu
On 28/11/2022 17:04, B.M. wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of weeks.
Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-
installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 :-)
Since all our other computers are happily running Debian, I'd like to replace
this Ubuntu by Debian Testing (later Bookworm). I've already decided to run it
on a single btrfs partition and learn something about subvolumes... I assume
the machine should work well - but who knows? How would you proceed?
a) leave it running Ubuntu forever
b) replace Ubuntu by Debian, fiddling around issues if there are any later
c) resize the partition, install Debian side-by-side, check than if anything
works as expected
d) analyze the installed system (how?) to find out any special configs etc.
before replacing Ubuntu by Debian
e) other...
Thank you for your ideas.
Have a nice day,
Bernd
PS: Please cc me, since I'm not regularly subscribed to the list
Hello.
First thing - it should have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed - that version
(22.04) is now seven months old, and, has gone into point releases
(patched sub-versions).
I recommend retaining Ubuntu (and keeping it updated to the latest LTS
version), as, if you encounter any hardware driver or firmware issues,
that could help you resolve them, if you install another Linux
distribution in parallel.
I do not know whether Debian uses snap, but, Ubuntu does, and the use of
snap on Ubuntu, now, has led to some quite passionate arguments, for and
against it.
You might want to, depending on the system capacity, install each of
Linux Mint, and Debian, in parallel with Ubuntu, and, play with each of
the three operating systems, to find your preference.
You can share a single swap partition, between different distributions,
and, between different versions of the same distribution. A 32GB
partition is adequate for a / partition for a distribution, and,
depending on how you want to deal with data, a 32GB or 64GB partition,
should be adequate for a /home partition, with using shared data
partitions (on a system that I recently acquired, I have shared data
partitions formatted as exfat, for its enhanced features, and, it is
accessible and formattable (?) using gparted).
In case you are not aware, you can have a multi-boot iso USB thumbdrive,
using Ventoy, which is easy to set up and use, and, you can boot into
any live distro version, or, install from the iso versions, on a Ventoy
thumbdrive.
I have a Ventoy drive, with about 8 different distro iso's on it.
Liam Proven has written published articles about Ventoy
(https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/friday_foss_fest/).
I hope that this is a helpful, and useful, start, to consider.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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