Not That Anyone Would Notice: May Be Offline A Couple Of Days...

Or I may not. Depends.

Need to rebuild my system. Completely upgrade the OS (Linux Mint XFCE usually), sooooooooo

My present desktop is a SFF  i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with (DDR3) 12G ram (8 cores) (according to lshw). GeForce GTX 1050 Ti video card. Has an Internal DVD (laptop quality) and I added an external Blu-Ray drive. Haven't had any problems with it until recently (random lock-ups needing hard reboot) and it's done everything I have (reasonably) asked of it. With the NVIDIA video card it even rips and converts movies fairly quickly. Been up and running about 3 years. (1998 motherboard.)

The "Windows" SFF I bought to (badly) run MSFS is an i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60 GHZ with (DDR4) 30G ram (8 cores). GeForce GTX 1050. No optical drive at all. 

And, really, about the only important difference between the two is RAM.

But still: Hmmm...

I mean; I gotta reinstall the OS anyway, why not upgrade the hardware at the same time? I have it and it ain't doing anything but gathering dust.

Downloaded and burned the latest Linux Mint to a thumb drive. (Do we still call them that?)

Killed Windows (felt SO good!) by installing said Linux Mint XFCE and installing/re-installing everything I usually use. (Leaving out things I've installed but hardly ever use. We'll see how that goes.)

Now comes the tedious part: setting up e-mail and all the 'online' stuff and password files and all that. Reinstalling the Virtual Machine 'stuff' I use often is going to be a pain. Sometimes just getting the  3 monitors I use to show up in the right order is a pain. Computers are a pain! Why do I subject myself to this? Aaarrrrgggghhh!

Er

So, tomorrow sometime I'll shut down the 'old' computer, pull my data drive out, unplug it and set it off to the side. I know I'm going to have to start it up someday and see how something was installed/set-up and instead of reinventing the wheel...

THEN put my data drive  (and maybe one other (12 TB I'm not really using elsewhere)) in then begin the reconnect everything part of the evolution. Ugh. So many customization's to redo. Hell, Thunar alone will take an hour or two. (But, maybe not. I did find the uga.xml file with all the custom settings and MaY be able to just copy it over.)

So, I may be offline for a day or two.