Debian 12 is Better Than Windows 10
I keep a Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF with Windows 10 on it because I have email and a few other things for one specific client on it. Most every other company on the planet has abandoned Microsoft products, but this one still uses them. Having come up in IT through operations back when we had actual computer rooms with actual computers in them, I’m a firm believer in bare metal backups. I use Image for Linux on my Linux machines and Image for Windows on my Windows 10 machine. I have a lot of external drive enclosures that I let systems backup automatically to. In fact, you’ve seen me write about external drives before.
Lately I’ve started buying the Seagate pre-packaged ones, but for years I put my own drives in. It wasn’t until about the last six years that pre-packaged external drives got “good enough” to buy. Drives failed much more often. Even just sitting on a desk never being moved drives would fail faster in the enclosures due to heat. If those things had a fan it was inadequate at best. Higher volume fans made noise so people returned the products.
Most of the pre-packaged drives usually had something custom in the enclosure that made it difficult to replace the drive. Some of this had to do with the steaming piles of excrement on eBay, Amazon, and a few other places. They would engage in Drive Shucking.
