I installed pop!_os as my daily driver some months ago (completely got rid of windows) and have thought it pretty good. But something about it seemed off - it would take programs just too long to open, it wasn’t snappy… Once I got into something it seemed to run fine (playing dota or something else was fine after initial quirks).
Well, today, figured it out…
When I did the first install, I was very nervous about deleting all of my existing data on my disks and so tried to manually partition everything so that I could get it right (I think I was also planning to dual-boot).
Fast forward to today, and I’m testing speeds on all the drives to see which one to pitch for a new one I acquired. I see the 3 HDDs, but where is the SSD… Oh god, I installed the boot partition and root and home all onto one of the ~12 year old HDDs and the SSD has been sitting idle.
Anyway, just about done with the new fresh install onto the SSD, hopefully it isn’t too hard to start port over the home directory from that HDD…
If you’re not yet confident in your Linux skills, a good idea would be to disconnect all drives except the one you want to install on, during installation… especially if you have multiple drives of the same size
Even if you are confident in your Linux skills this isn’t a bad idea. I’ve seen too many OS installers put things on drives other than the one you choose to risk it at this point.
Gets a bit annoying when you’ve got a tower with 15 years of old drives from previous builds connected
Yeah, Murphys law. Unplug everything except what you work on if you do file system level stuff, no matter the experience or focus you can put in.
It’s a great idea and works perfectly in this case. Unfortunately, it’s pretty challenging to disconnect an NVMe drive when it’s blocked by the CPU cooler or other components. In my case, I always recheck multiple times before making any partitions changes.