Linux is just all around snappier for me than windows is. I never have to wait, but on windows there are always delays opening windows and for some reason it will keep trying to generate thumbnails.

I really hate using windows. I’m a worse worker because of it. I’m just waiting for the m3 Macs to switch.

Sadly, my work stuff does not work on Linux. So I have a second computer for most of my work.

I would still not recommend it. If the drive fails and data is lost or corrupted it could also be lost or corrupted on the other drive.

It would really be better to use backup software to save your data. Also depending on how the drive is used, it may put less wear on the second drive if you use a backup application.

Don’t use raid for backing up use a backup program instead. I’d recommend vorta or kopia.

I use ext4 for my boot drive as that’s what Linux mint defaults to.

I do not do raids and use btrfs on my other drives.

You can turn on compression on write with btrfs which may reduce the amount of data being read and written to your drive which could further reduce its lifespan.

But you shouldn’t expect the drives to last 10 years.

They might, but don’t expect it and have a backup of whatever is important. Ideally you should have a local backup and a cloud based backup or at least an offsite backup somewhere else.

I forget exactly what I did, but I think I used okukar. It showed the attachments then it just selected them all and copied them to the desktop.

It might have been one of the web browsers, but I’m pretty sure it was okular as i couldn’t do it on windows.

If you have a better solution, please let me know.