SayCyberOnceMore
I tried using Enlightenment years ago - it looked amazing, and then… I found all the bugs, incompatibilities, etc… and it’s lackof progress was disappointing.
I tried Bodhi Linux and even they gave up, creating their own Moksha desktop environment too…
Whatever you do. Full backup first 👍🏻😉
Personally, I’d go with the clean Fedora install on the new drive and copy your data over as someone else mentioned, then expand Windows once you 100% happy with it.
(I did something similar with WinXP years ago… eventually dropping Windows, so that harddrive just became a data drive)
This is the way.
There’s nothing worse than finding your DNS/DHCP has gone down and it’s a VM / container running inside a server that can’t start because it doesn’t have an IP address and you can’t resolve names to get the thing started.
Break things down into chunks that make sense - to you.
I have dedicated (low power) hardware for the interweb firewall / DHCP / core network stuff.
I have a NAS for storage with all the backups / reinstall images on (so I can rebuild the firewall if there’s no internet, for example)
Then I have everything else in a single server.
Sources: a house fire, water leak & many hardware failures & borked upgrades over many decades.
It’s come quite a way… O.MG Cable
Just a cable… complete with wifi man-in-the-middle abilities
I mean, from an engineering point of view, hats off to the guy… I know how much effort would’ve gone into that…
But like one of the YT comments implied; if I tried that in my home, I’d be living in my shed.
I agree with this point: age isn’t the measure of usefulness, popularity is
Something might be 10yrs old and uaed by many people… and also something 10 months old is no longer used.
Also, just a thought, if it’s “old” it’s probably a standard too, so probably doesn’t actually need much (relative term) effort to maintain…
I didn’t know this was a thing
Got to admit it’s quite close to the start date / time to be deciding on a design now - unless I’ve misunderstood?
Checkout big-launcher:
big-launcher is a work-in-progress HTPC application launcher. The design is loosely based on the Roku UI, consisting of a sidebar menu on the left, and selectable apps on the right. This project is intended to be the successor to my other HTPC project, Flex Launcher. Compared to Flex Launcher, big-launcher will be more graphically advanced, but less customizable. The program will be written in C++ and utilize SDL for graphics.
I just read about it from the Flex Launcher page, so no idea what it’s like, just passing it on…