Below the frame looks like to me.

First distro I got to work was LibraNet. Easy to set up and use, ran by a father-son team. Died when the father passed away. 😥

It would be easy enough to put a toggle in the settings for a ‘classic’ mode. I can see him doing that.

The zoom out cube is, but I’d also like the cube desktop switch effect back.

Ah yes, that’s exactly the kind of information they should have on their main site.

I can’t find anything on that site that talks about how it works. That’s disappointing.

My mother used Kubuntu for the last two decades of her life, and she was a great-grandmother.

I’ve been using Clementine because it’s the only one I’ve found that lets me (easily) rate my songs. But I can always check out others if they can do that. I wish I could find one where the lyrics loaded automatically.

Somehow I missed the word “Advocate” in the title and had a brief panic there.

I hadn’t seen that particular one before, so thanks! I guess I was one of the lucky 10,000.

Mine was an obscure, short-lived distro called LibraNet. It was well done though, by just a father and son team. Unfortunately that was also why it was short lived, because the father passed away.

As for why I picked it, I didn’t really know much about how to choose a distro at the time, so I picked it based on the name, and its description of being easy to use and set up, which it was.

🤞

Exactly, I never had the zoom-out cube, just the desktop switch version, and it was painful to lose. I was so looking forward to that in 6 but no. 😢 The zoom cube is fun too though.

Yeah, there must be something subjective going on because they all look the same to me. They all look like closed happy eyes to me.

You can probably reuse an existing /home partition. But if you don’t have any files you want to keep, why bother?

I said no files I want to move, not keep. I would be keeping them right where they are, on the hdd.

Unfortunately that would involve a lot more physical work than I was hoping for, so not really the easiest way for me. I can’t really work on the computer where it is, so all the moving and hooking/unhooking stuff would be a real pain that I hope to minimize if possible. I was hoping that I could just boot the cd/flash drive, get a partition manager and tell it to install to the currently empty drive, and use the existing /home dir as its /home dir. But since I’ve never done anything this complicated before, I wanted to make sure how it works before I tried anything.

Also, I don’t have any files I really plan on moving anywhere, unless there’s something I need to I don’t know about? I’m sorry, it was a little confusing.

As for the encryption, “It also features XTS-AES 256-bit encryption that is enabled by default without user authentication and will prevent threat actors from reading data directly from NAND.” Whatever that means, idk.

1. Ah, gotcha. Thanks. Exactly the sort of detail I made this post for.
2. Pretty sure, unless partitions can span multiple drives or something? I want to keep the data on my hdd home where it is, except for the games. Too much to move anyway. For the new ssd, I want an os partition and a data partition like I have now, but this will be mostly for games that will benefit from the speed; I’ll use the hdd for media files and such. Once all that is up and working, I can get rid of the stuff on the old ssd and use it for more game space or whatever.
3. I just want games and os on the ssd, and data files on the hdd. 3 parts is all I know atm.
4. Idk anything about it, I just see all these ssds advertising their “256 bit aes encryption” or whatever. I tried looking it up, and could read how great it was, but not what it was like to actually use it, particularly under linux. It’s not a big deal that I even use it really, I just wanted to make sure that I don’t screw something else up just because it’s there and I don’t know what to expect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6YSwN8pX0

Ok, so first thing out of the way- that model you linked is not made for 3D printing. To get a decent result you’re gonna have to edit it a bit.

Yeah? That sounds like it’s definitely getting beyond what I can do.

The big issue is the glowing part.

I should have clarified, I’d probably be happy enough with just painting it some kind of mottled blue and white. This doesn’t have to look too accurate.

Do you want to make a lightsaber, or specifically this lightsaber? If you aren’t particularly attached to this one I’d suggest looking for another model. Printables, Thingiverse, and Thangs have 3D models specifically designed for printing.

Yeah, there’s reasons for this one, but it’s less important that I even make it. Just a thought occurred to me while I was waking up since it was already a 3d model… what if I could print it? Preliminary research suggested I could, then I thought I should consult people who do this sort of thing. So this is all feasibility study, and you’ve provided much useful information in that regard. Thanks!

Thanks. Real lights would be cool, but more effort that I’d want to do right now. I think I’d be happy enough with painting those parts some sort of mottled blue and white, if I could even pull that off. lol