- anything else I should consider?
Get a ssd drive. That's the main bottleneck on these computers. My thinkpad got to boot to X from 15s to 6s just by changing the drive. Switching to systemd makes it in about 4s.
hmm, getting booting speeds from 15s to 6s is really something that is cool to show off at presentations. however, i doubt that it will effect you in real live (that is, unless your system likes to crash during shows and you need to get back after a cold reset in front of a waiting audience)
I'm also not a big fan of ssd as well: I don't mind waiting for my boot,
don't use hardly any media that really demand those speeds, the price is
still to high and the technology too new, and afaik, there's still a limit
of times the sectors can be written.
- anything else I should consider? does this version copes well
with ntfs?
*you want* to use ext4
- usually I have my systems (w7 + ubuntu) in their individual
partitions, and all work files are in a 3rd partition.
as I said above, I'd use a ext4 partition for linux and avoid even reading from ntfs when working. ntfs == windowz
now this seems to imply that there is only a philosophical reason to not use NTFS. and while i'm always in when it comes to w32 bashing, i'd like to add that there are technical reasons as well. first, on any recent linux distribution you should be able to "just use" NTFS, with reading, writing, and what not. great! the bad news is that nowadays NTFS support is implemented via a FUSE driver ("NTFS-3G"), which means that the driver is not a kernel-driver but is running in user-space. afaik, this has mostly licensing reasons, but anyhow: running in user-space means that the *performance* of the NTFS-access will simply be deplorable. it's certainly good enough to backup your system or to share data. but if you want to use that partition to hold your ardour session, then i'd rather use something else (ext2 might still be the fastest, ext3/4 might be more feasible)
I don't mind much about philosophical reasons there are not to use
whatever, windows is and will be my main system.
practical reasons are more important. for the w7/ubuntu common work
partition, I usually use ext32. I just wanted to know if ntfs was already
safe to use, but I can remain with fat32 - I don't have many files that go
over the size limit (although probably there are other disadvantages I
don't know)
I could use put some work in the linux partition (e.g. ardour sessions, if
I ever touch that program again), but ideally I use the common partition
for that - then I can work on Pd from both windows and linux sides, look
at my browser sessions, etc.
thanks for all the feedback,
jmmmp