Originally Posted by
CrescentCityRazors
Ubuntu 22.04. Dell laptop is my main device. It's polished and has a really big user base and peer support is great. Lots of great software in official repos. When I saw WinDOHs 8 I said ENOUGH. Jumped into Linux with both feet, burned my bridges behind me. There are other distros that are good. I tried Red Hat early in it's run, didn't like it or just couldn't figure it out. Went back to OS2 Warp for as long as I could keep it going. W98 and W7 almost got me back in the Microsoft cheerleading squad and then that atrocity, W8, was released and sent me running and screaming away and Linux seemed the only realistic choice. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 I think it was and the whole experience was so slick and smooth! No compiling stuff, just click and shoot. Tried Mint, Debian, a few other good ones, and some minimalist distros like Puppy, Raspbian on the Pi's, Kali, but always drifted back to Ubuntu. If I had to pay to run Ubuntu, I would. Next choice would probably be Debian.
And BTW, @Gasman, I bet you could write a dandy shell script that would run in a Linux terminal that would go through your entire drive file by file and back up anything that has been changed, to your backup drive. It would be a bit clunky and maybe resource hungry but you could set it to run only when you aren't doing intensive tasks on the computer. A shell script works like a DOS or WinDOHs batch file, or *.bat file, except it is orders of magnitude more flexible and powerful. You could also probably do something in Python that would do what you want. Essentially the task is simple... automatically go through the entire directory tree looking for new files or files that have changed, and copying them to the backup drive using the same directory structure. Periodically use the dd command to clone the working drive onto a fresh backup drive and store the old backup drive for a backup backup. Or whatever the windows dos session equivalent to dd is.
A more sophisticated approach would be an app running in the background, watching everything you do, and backing up anything that you save after editing. Not my style, that.