Yes, Cinnamon is good. For people who want to try/use Windows-like KDE Plasma on Ubuntu, I can recommend Feren OS.
I myself prefer Arch (and I guess Manjaro too) over Ubuntu by a lot, because of its flexibility, RebornOS/Garuda/EndeavourOS are probably good Arch distros to start with.
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With the proper cable you can directly connect up to 4 SAS drives to a miniSAS port. However, not a U.2 port, that does not support SAS, even though the physical connector is identical. U.3 will support both PCIe and SAS.
No, not really. Quite the opposite often. If you buy a soundcard that's already quite a few years old it might very well produce a less accurate signal than the onboard sound.
Not that you could hear a difference anyway in that case.
Here in Germany Crucial P1, Kingston A2000, Intel 660p seem to be the best deals for 1 TB at the moment. I would pay a little more for the Kingston one, since the other two will get quite slow after a while when you ever plan to transfer huge amounts of data to them, due to the slow QLC NAND. It...
No, not a problem. Spinning up puts stress on the platter motor, so for it, constant operation with no spinning up/down is better. A dead platter motor is relatively rare though nowadays. What really counts are activity of the read/write head and drive temperature, you want to keep those low...
Any USB drive is fine for that. Formatting a drive with DRAM write cache (like HDDs and most SSDs have) in exFAT might corrupt the filesystem though on sudden removal, which can make folders or the entire filesystem inaccessible, and it might only be repairable on Windows. Just be aware of that.
Extended writes to an SMR drive can be quite a bit slower compared to CMR. On the first write to a sector they will perform the same though. On the second write the old data has to be moved first, significantly slowing down the write operation. You can reset an SMR drive by performing an ATA...
If you want to multi-boot, make sure you stick with UEFI setup everywhere. Legacy BIOS is terrible for multi-boot. And install Windows first, since the EFI System Partition is wiped during Windows installation.
I did PCIe passthrough with QEMU/KVM once, was not that hard to set up actually...
They both use identical memory chips, and are clocked to the same frequency, which means timings might very well be identical. Crucial is just a Micron sub-brand after all.
I expect this kit to perform identical to a pair of either of those two models.
Just overall very nice defaults. It uses KDE Plasma, which is not available for Linux Mint (anymore), the most complete Linux DE in my opinion. Cinnamon is also a very nice DE, which is the default for Linux Mint.
I can also recommend trying out UbuntuDDE, which uses the Deepin Desktop Environment.
Cinnamon, the default desktop environment for Linux Mint probably uses more memory than any other Linux desktop environment.
The least memory is used by LXQt. KDE Plasma also uses astonishingly little RAM, even less than Xfce according to some more recent tests.
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