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Bought a new SSD. Should I install Ubuntu 12.04 or wait for 14.04?

bbhaag

bbhaag

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So long story short I bought a 240gb SSD and I am going to install it into my laptop running Peppermint OS 3. When the SSD comes I was thinking of ditching Peppermint and going with Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon which is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I've read on the Wiki page for Ubuntu that 14.04 LTS will have built in trim support and is slated for release later this year in the spring.

Should I wait for 14.04 because of trim support? I don't want to mess up my SSD and I've read that trim is pretty vital if you have one.
 
bbhaag said:
So long story short I bought a 240gb SSD and I am going to install it into my laptop running Peppermint OS 3. When the SSD comes I was thinking of ditching Peppermint and going with Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon which is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I've read on the Wiki page for Ubuntu that 14.04 LTS will have built in trim support and is slated for release later this year in the spring.

Should I wait for 14.04 because of trim support? I don't want to mess up my SSD and I've read that trim is pretty vital if you have one.
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Then just install Ubuntu and enable trim on it if you want trim. Trim in present in Ubuntu 12 but not enabled(read up on it first)

edit:// How does not having trim enabled "mess up" your ssd? From what I gather it only slows it down?
 
Graze said:
How does not having trim enabled "mess up" your ssd? From what I gather it only slows it down?
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TRIM is only a performance optimization, but it's a fairly important one. The idle GC capabilities of newer drives can vary pretty significantly.
 
Thanks for the replies so far. After doing some quick research on enabling trim in Ubuntu I don't think it's something I'm comfortable doing. Looks like it is all done in the terminal which I'm not very well versed in. It also involves writing scripts which I don't do. Also there appears to be two ways to do it. One is called fstab and the other is called cron.....to complicated and I don't really want to spend the time to figure it out.

So I think I'll just wait for 14. This is just my lounge around the house computer so I'm in no hurry.
 
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bbhaag said:
Thanks for the replies so far. After doing some quick research on enabling trim in Ubuntu I don't think it's something I'm comfortable doing. Looks like it is all done in the terminal which I'm not very well versed in. It also involves writing scripts which I don't do. Also there appears to be two ways to do it. One is called fstab and the other is called cron.....to complicated and I don't really want to spend the time to figure it out.

So I think I'll just wait for 14. This is just my lounge around the house computer so I'm in no hurry.
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You are messing with linux and not comfortable with a terminal or not interesting in working in one? 😕
 
I'm not comfortable using the terminal. I've used Peppermint for about two years and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to use it.
 
bbhaag said:
When the SSD comes I was thinking of ditching Peppermint and going with Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon which is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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Why Mint 13 and not Mint 16? 13 is over a year and a half old at this point...


bbhaag said:
So I think I'll just wait for 14. This is just my lounge around the house computer so I'm in no hurry.
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bbhaag said:
I'm not comfortable using the terminal. I've used Peppermint for about two years and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to use it.
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If the computer isn't your primary machine, and you're already planning on re-installing the OS, why not take the chance? 😉 It sounds like the perfect opportunity to learn some valuable Linux skills. :thumbsup:
 
I 2nd Mint 16. I have it installed on 2 crunching machines but don't mess around to much with those. I also have it installed on a USB 3.0 stick that I can move around. Runs great. It's actually a good way to test it. Much faster than a LiveCD. The more I use the more I like it.
 
Just run fstrim once a week or whenever you do a lot of deletes from the SSD.

Commands:
"sudo fstrim -v /"
"sudo fstrim -v /home" if that's on a different partition.
"sudo fstrim -v /media/###" where ### is another mounted volume.
 
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