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Computer Setup and System Configuration • Re: Changing to Linux for music making

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One thing I discovered, is when I shut down the computer, if I do it in two steps I don't corrupt the filesystem: 1st logout, 2nd pause 3 seconds, 3rd shut down. This prevents some need to rebuild filesystem after reboot.
That doesn't sound good. So it is running `fsck` when you just reboot?
Naw, it's OK. It's usually historically worse on Windows, actually. I learned about it in terms of potential corruption of the system files on Windows. Then many years later, on Linux, I noticed that the shutdown is so fast that it's similar to me holding down the power button sometimes (but not always). Nobody ever complains about shutdown being too fast, usually startup and shutdown are too slow. But anyways, if I force a shutdown, sometimes the journaling has to activate and everything seems fine afterwards but I don't want to risk anything.

But ever since I stopped going straight from quitting to shutdown, I've noticed that I have fewer system problems, in general. I know the shutdown times can be tweaked in the Windows Registry and I used to do that. You can even corrupt Windows if you tweak it to shutdown too fast (historically anyways).

Come to think of it, maybe it's related to the hard drive cache. There's warnings that the disk will be faster with caching on, but if power is withdrawn suddenly, then the risk of data loss is higher. I always leave disk caching on though since I've got a laptop computer with battery charged almost all the time. But I'm thinking it's really nothing to worry about.

But you shouldn't worry about it. My system is really fine and I don't have any problems lately which is wonderful.
No, I'm not getting "fsck" filesystem check stuff either. But thank you for considering it.

In Linux, there are some warnings about using the AUR, but I don't use that.
The main source of my previous system's instability seems to have been a known system bug within XZ data compression which I used to use a lot. As soon as that bug was fixed, I no longer had problems with system install and configuration and maintennance.

Also, I think the distro devs fixed a lot of other bugs over the months because everything has been getting smoother and smoother. The kernel updates seemed to help too. I quit using anything that seemed finnicky too.

Statistics: Posted by mjolnir — Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:56 am



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