Anton Aylward wrote:
Part of the problem is that modern laptops are too capable,too much processing power, too much storage. If they were 'slimmer' we wouldn't be tempted to load them up and, as many people I know, use them as their primary device.
---- laptop and desktop sales are declining and being replaced with lower-powered handheld devices. It's one of the reasons why Win7's desktop with transparency and 3D features may, in retrospect be the pinnacle of user-desktops. With Win8+10, the desktops were dumbed down to give a common experience with low-end devices -- thus a return to a 1980's metro look. It's very disappointing. My last machine when I still worked for sgi was a laptop 'workstation'. It fit my needs at the time. My old 'server' (really an old tower-workstation) died @ 10 years so I needed to replace it quickly and went for a 'real' server type system. I liked the architecture so much, when I needed to replace my laptop, I looked for a similar HW-base for my desktop, but with graphics support. It was "mandatory" as win7 was just coming out -- with full and incremental backups disabled. I didn't trust Win7 w/my data -- good thing too, had to reinstall everything from scratch 2 times due to Win7 eating my disks (the content, actually). As I mentioned in response to Anton's fear of having a non-LVM root, I haven't had to resize my root partition since I setup the system, so Anton's fear of resizing root,
"I am @#$$%$#@ sick and tired of having the RootFS grow and having to take down the disk and shuffle partitions around." wasn't really a concern, especially since I can move directories that grow too large off to their own subdir on /home (which is on top of LVM).
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