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    Re: Is Ubuntu something for me?

    Quote Originally Posted by truij View Post
    OK, I read through everything above, and excuse me that I constantly use driveletters. But the thing is: I DO want to install Ubuntu to the SSD, but given the fact that Windows and a lot of programs is installed on there (and that it is a 256 GB drive) I can't install Ubuntu beside it because that's going to use too much storage (best would be to delete Windows, but other user probably wont like that ).
    So thats why I want to move certain programs to the SSD.
    But I am going to look if I can make some space, and otherwise try the above mentioned things..
    The OS and applications typically use less than 35G even on bloated Gnome-Ubuntu. Put everything else on the HDD, including the swap. Swap really should be on a slow spinning HDD so the user can "feel" the slowdown when RAM gets tight. That way, the user can close a bloated browser and free 50G of wasted RAM allocations from the browser bloat.

    Put your HOME directories and /var/ on the spinning HDD. The installer has a "Do something else" option where that can be accomplished. Or there are how-to guides https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pa...ng/Home/Moving and https://www.howtogeek.com/442101/how...er-hard-drive/ and https://www.tecmint.com/move-home-di...disk-in-linux/ are all reputable sources.
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MovingLinuxPartition seems dated. I wouldn't use it, but it is there if you need it.

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    Re: Is Ubuntu something for me?

    Is this a laptop or desktop? What brand/model of computer?

    Could you please post the output of these PowerShell commands from Windows?
    Code:
    Get-Volume
    Get-ComputerInfo -Property "*version"
    Paint us a picture please.
    Last edited by MAFoElffen; March 22nd, 2023 at 08:23 PM.

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