What are the some of the best Linux distros that will provide a silky smooth, joyful user experience on a hard disk in the current year 2024?
antix
>>103226149Literally all of them.t. using linux on hdd right now.
>>103226149I don't think it matters much since it'll cache everything in RAM once it's been loaded so it probably depends more on your RAM.
>>103226149Linux runs far better on spinning rust than Windows
>>103226149debian or devuanless updates means less writes and long HDD lifeand if you pick devuan you can get a smaller init system which is good for extra space and less writes
>>103228405>I don't think it matters much since it'll cache everything in RAM once it's been loadedYou are mentally ill if you think there is no difference between hdd and ssd because le cached ram
>>103228581The initial load time will differ, but once it's loaded into memory it should make much difference unless you need to load additional stuff from disk.
There is absolutely no reason to use a HDD in $currentyear as an OS drive when an SSD is under $10 and you probably have a few old ones laying around anyway
>>103228604ThisAlso little tip : use zswap to limit disk access.
>>103226149I use a 160GB WD Blue HDD as my boot drive for Mint cause it just werks.
>>103228604This isnt 2008 anymore grandpa, now you got games and apps shuffling many GB files around, nobody got time to wait like you do, some have jobs
>>103228779I'm not saying your SHOULD use HDDs, but you COULD use them fine. I personally only have SSD storage.
>>103226149Anything with a large base of recent packages. Arch, Fedora, SUSE, Gentoo, ... It's mostly a matter of discipline wrt engaging the HDD as little as possible. Use btrfs with compression, use zram, don't use stuff that's going to shit up your block cache with redundant data like snap or flatpak. Mount your root fs async if you think you can get away with it.
