Comments by "Zetectic" (@zetectic7968) on "ExplainingComputers" channel.

  1.  @I_am_Raziel Only if your house doesn't burn down or the PC is stolen
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  2. Thanks for the video with clear steps for what to do.
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  3. Clear & concise :) Win 11 crashing too much, so getting closer to moving to Linux. Do I go with Mint or Ubuntu 🤔
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  4. Good to see this went well; 7 or 8 out of 10. I don't need to use Linux for these kinds of projects but good to see that you can do more & more in Linux with every passing year.
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  5. The reports of the death of HDD have been exaggerated for years. Back in the '90's I told my older brother I had bought a new PC with a 1.2GB HDD. His response was "you'll never be able to fill it up!" 🤣
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  6. Thanks Chris 😃 If ever Windows becomes too expensive to buy a license or if Windows 12 changes to a subscription model like Office 365 then I will definitely switch to Linux Mint. I do keep a copy on a USB drive as an emergency boot option in case of a major problem in Windows.
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  7. Certainly with HDD in the TB's compression is not as necessary as once was. I would say compression is more useful when emailing files although they can be labelled as malicious by some email &/or AV programs, however a password can protect the data from others except the intended recipient. Been using 7zip for 15 years or more since WinRAR/WinZip became a paid program.
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  8. Been a while since I tried Linux. This one looks good & I would prefer to do the basics without resort to Terminal. Thanks for sharing the info about Vanilla OS
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  9. Zip/Jazz drives turned out to be an expensive dead end. I think I still have some disks but no way of reading them - who these days still have an ide or parallel port to connect to? Have about 150-200 CD/DVD discs but a lot were written at 12-16x speed ( have checked them in over 5 years; I wonder how many are now coasters🤔
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  10. Thanks. For over 4 years I have wanted to replace my Coolermaster HAF X case as the dust filters are meh & the one below the PSU can only we cleaned if the PSU is removed. I have 4 HDD & a DVD writer. Most new(er) cases don't have an optical bay & only have space for 2 x HDD with 2.5" SSD seemingly redundant as NVME drives are so much faster & not much more in price plus often only have 2 front USB ports.
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  11. Many congratulations, Chris! Well deserved & 15 years or so in the making. I wasn't an early sub by any means but happy to have helped you get the award.
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  12. Very interesting and a lot different to Ubuntu Dapper Drake where I started.
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  13. very useful & clear video. Thank you
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  14. With all the flavours the only answer must be to suck it & see 😀
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  15. Nothing wrong with my existing storage except I now have multiple drives of different sizes from 2 x 1 TB WD Black in RAID 1 to 3 & 4 TB internal HDD plus externals from 2 TB to 6TB. I need to simplify my setup 😦
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  16. Interesting although a few niggles. Please do a comparison video as it would be good to see is the ARM system will win or how much of a gap it will be the loser.
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  17. Will share this with my brother whose PC is 12+ years old & still doesn't want to buy a new one.
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  18. Too many years ago to remember, I got my first taste of Ubuntu running it in a VMware virtual machine as it would run Folding@Home more efficiently & quickly than Windows 7. A lot more use of the command prompt then but the forums were helpful in showing what to do. I will try to use Virtual Box to explore Linux before the end of the year. I wasn't aware that Python was needed.
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  19. Very interesting! I wonder if these will be used in all the EVs that are going to move us around when the combustions engine sales diminish.
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  20. I will share this as my brother needs an upgrade for Win 11. Currently he has a very old Intel 4 core with only 6GB of RAM + a nvidia GTX 260. Will need a better mobo as he has more than 4 Sata drives. Then a better case & new PSU as they are both 12+ years old.
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  21. Does it make any difference if it is USB 2 or 3 thumb drive?
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  22. First time seeing what AI generated images are. Very interesting video. Early days as to whether this will be a good, bad or indifferent tool and will "big tech" crush the kittle players in the market yet again.
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  23. Amazing what can be done on something so small. If only I knew what to do with one 😮
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  24.  @keithmiller9665  showing as unavailable & not known when back in stock on the river store.
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  25. Very interesting. I will have to give this a try via USB before too long.
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  26. MS should remove the bloat programs like News & Xbox, allow Defender to be removed completely from the system or option to install it during Windows setup. The mail app is still clunky & there is now an Outlook lite replacement but this currently on lets you use a @outlook email address - this needs more functionality as standard. Can we stop with the endless reboots after updates! I'm not 12 & I don't need the "Malicious Software Tool" to run every month as I have a good AVAM installed. I'm still on 10 as 11 still seems to have too many bits that are Beta versions
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  27. Dual drive dual boot is the way to go if you want Linux as well as Windows.
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  28. My 2 year old Asus motherboard has an 8 pin and a 4 pin socket beside it. The additional 4 pin is needed for overclocking &/or if a 2nd high power graphics card is installed. I think the only reason for a fully modular PSU is if you want to use braided/coloured cables from a 3rd party supplier.
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  29. Thanks for the thorough explanation. I was going to buy a WD M2 Blue back in the summer, now the price has gone up £20 for the 2TB model. Maybe Chris you could help me by doing a video about SE (secure erase of SSd's)? I have a Samsung NVME but Magician says it is not a supported drive ( it is C drive) but even if I create the USB drive to perform SE it will not work. I also have a Crucial 500GB sata SSD (storage but old Widows that I want to remove) I have tried Parted Magic but that fails to recognise drives ( maybe too many are connected? I just need 1 connected that I want to SE?)
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  30. Thanks for the video. 2024 I am going to try Linux Mint again & use it regularly if only on a virtual machine but maybe with a goal of having a dual boot system by the end of the year, The upgrade to Win 11 has had a few problems: crashes, freezes, BSOD, after a very stable Win 10. I fear I will have to do a clean install of Windows.
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  31. Here's to the next 500 videos! Seems there is always something new to learn with computers & I was ignorant about RGB shirts 😮
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  32. One way or another MS will either force people onto 11 or make you pay to stay on 10 either with $$$ &/or withdrawing features from 10
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  33. Nice clear explaimation. I did try Clozilla many years ago & didn't find it user friendly but the new version seems better. I have used the Samsung data migration tool version 2 or 3 & it worked without a problem as it appears to be "idiot proof"
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