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  • Fedora or Debian, but it depends on what you’re going to be using it for.

    Maybe you want a NAS OS instead? Maybe a media system like Open Filevault? If just runnings VMs and Containers, maybe something geared towards that.

    Fedora does have some nice preconfigured stuff like Cockpit and several helper automations by default. Yes, they can be installed on Debian, but it’s extra steps.


  • Detected means the system sees them. Mounted means the partitions in those drives have been mapped to a local area on your filesystem where you can access them.

    Depending on your desktop and settings, this is usually an automatic thing for well known filesystems like NTFS or FAT, but not so with encrypted volumes because there are extra steps to mounting them during boot (like a passphrase).

    If they you had Bitlocker enabled in Windows, then they will not automount. So if in Gnome open up the ‘Disks’ app, or ‘Partition Manager’ in KDE, see if your dicks show up there, then click on the partition you want to mount and it should ask for your disk password to mount it.









  • Nah, it’s not that risky if your tooling and process is solid. I have thousands of edge devices out in the field doing firmware updates on carrier boards from a specific manufacturer and have never had one fail or brick in update. Why? Because their tooling is absolutely fantastic and pretty bulletproof.

    Even a simple {checksum>transfer>checksum>write>checksum} is pretty safe, UNLESS…you know the carrier you’re flashing doesnt have the ability to do so, in which case, you definitely put a warning like this on your product because you know it has a penchant for failure.