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Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions)

Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Thanks for the answers!

exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”

Sorry, could you ELI5 this part? (and I heard exFAT doesn’t have journaling so a power outage could result in data loss, did they add it or should I get an UPS just in case?)

So in other words, if you boot from a live USB, you have to actually try to ruin anything on your disk - I’m having a hard time imagining how one would do this by accident.

So my persistent storage isn’t mounted by default when I boot from a live version, correct? And if I do mount something, it should still be ok unless I do some weird specific thing with the CLI?

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neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
First question: lack of journalling won’t cause data loss by itself. It’s only a real issue if you happen to be writing data at the exact moment of the power outage, and even if so it’ll only affect the datablock currently being written. In 99.99% of the cases, ot will at worst require a fileayatem check. You’ll be fine without a UPS.

Second question: Correct on both accounts

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- Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Understood, thanks for the clarifications (…though sorry but I still didn’t understand the “exfat is widely supported b6 “everything”” part lol)
  
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  - neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Almost all OSes support exFAT.
    
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    Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    OHH dammit it wasn’t that hard, I really didn’t make the connection sorry lol
    
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