[ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days

[Steve Litt]

Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale said on Thu, 3 Aug 2023 19:18:09 -0400

>Hi,
>
>I probably use laptops in a really weird way, since I travel so much
>and I have been stuck without good (or any) Internet connections, etc.
> Therefore I always had a laptop that I could keep all of my relevant
> data on it to
>create presentations, videos, etc.   I have three TB of storage on my
>laptop.
>
>Of course you have to back this up, and with a 3.0 USB port it takes
>over 18 hours to do that.   

I'm not sure what you're backing up to, but if it's a USB3 spinning
rust disk and you use rsync and cp -al, only the very first backup
takes 18 hours, with all subsequent backups taking minutes because only
changed files are transferred.

SteveT

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