Dr Jekell

It’s not so much both computers being able to access it.

From what I have experienced Timeshift tends to lock a drive when it is doing a backup.

If computer 1 is doing a backup and computer 2 tries to start it’s backup it may fail without you noticing.

Giving each computer their own partition on the drive should alleviate the problem.

A partition for each one the drive should work alright, but it may turn to custard if they both try to access the drive at the same time.

To be honest I haven’t had the need or the time to delve that deeply into how Timeshift works sorry.

You should be able to highlight the ones that you want to remove then click on the delete button.

From what I understand is that each backup is just the difference between the original backup and the current system.

Have a look at XNview MP

I can definitely say that it is avery good photo management program.

I am only using about 20% of it’s features and it is my go to image software.

Unfortunately Apple seems to be actively working to make sure that the only way an iPod can be loaded with music is by using iTunes which is only supported on Mac or Windows.

You have a few of options on how to move forward:

1: Make a Windows virtual machine, install iTunes onto it and pass the iPod though to the VM.

2: Install Rockbox (if able) onto the device to enable it to act as a USB mass storage device allowing drag n drop loading of music.

3: Sell the iPod and get one of the many different digital audio players available on the market as most are OS agnostic (they show up as a USB mass storage device) and most use MicroSD cards to store the music meaning you can move the card to a new player as you upgrade later (so you are not locked to one vendor).

Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

Timeshift is what you are looking for if you want a functional backup system.

Check your motherboards manual, there may be a water cooling pump specific header.

You can use the greater-than sign to make code blocks but for some reason it then picks up your use of pound sign as the formatting for headers even though putting text into a code block should stop that.

There is mark-up that turns text blocks to a code block that doesn’t change anything.

You can also try pasting it into a text editor as what you copied it from may be at fault (Microsoft word is known to do this).

As others have said there are a couple of options that may or may not work as Apple loves to make sure that their products only work with their software and a lot of them haven’t been updated in years.

For ease of use you can install Rockbox on a good number of iPod devices, that will allow you to drag and drop music onto the device without having to use software to load the music.

If you are wanting an even easier option, you could sell your iPod and get one of the many different Digital audio player options that use microSD cards to store the music files allowing for ease of storage upgrades, ease of moving to a new device and being OS agnostic as they show up as a USB mass storage device.

I use a Fiio M7 as my daily driver with either a set of Jade audio EW1 TWS earphones or FiiO JH3 IEM’s & I have an older Fiio X3 2gen connected up to a dock for playing music in my living room.

I use XnView MP to view and organize my photos.

Fairly certain that you can encode tags into the photo’s metadata.

I use yt-dlg as a GUI for yt-dl.

I find it works pretty well.

Don’t use Gparted unless you know what you are doing as it is relatively easy to screw up.

Gnome disks is a much more user friendly option and you don’t have to mess around with changing permissions as what changes you make in it are owned by the logged in user.

He didn’t specify what sort of M.2 SSD he has so I thought that I would throw it out there as an option.

Plus as he said it was for an older computer & was looking for the cheapest adaptor that works, I guessed that he wasn’t too concerned about getting the most performance possible out of the setup.

Startech does a M.2 SSD to 2.5" SATA drive adapter.

1. Linux is not Windows

Do not expect things to work as they do in Windows.

2. The terminal is not to be feared (it only bites when told to)

While you can get most things done via a GUI option using the Terminal is much more powerful and gives more information.

3. Not all hardware works with or works well with Linux

This pertains mostly to Laptops and peripherals, but always do a quick Google search to check for any issues.

One of the big issues for people is sound, a lot of computer & parts makers like to use the cheapest no-name parts they can because Windows lets them require “drivers” aka software fixes for poor hardware whereas Linux tends to give unaltered output leading to complaints about sound quality.

4. Not all software works on or works well on Linux

You are not going to find software from Adobe, Microsoft office 365 etc running on Linux even using WINE.

Some games will not work on Linux even using the Proton compatibility software.

5. Linux software is often lacking in the visuals but has lots of options under the hood.

There is a lot of software made for Linux are made by devs who focus more on the under the hood performance than making the software GUI look pretty. So don’t be put off by the looks of a lot of Linux software.

6. Alternative to is a great website.

I highly recommend Using the Alternativeto website to (as the name implies) find alternatives to software you use on Windows.

7. Backup’s are your friend

Setup an external device be it an internal hard drive, external hard drive or NAS as a backup target for your files.

You can use Timeshift to backup the entire drive (and it can reload a chosen backup directly onto the drive), Lucky backup to sync specified folders (either one way or both ways) to your drives or as I do use both.

And backup before doing major updates.

I have Timeshift setup to backup the entire drive (including $home) to a separate internal HDD and Luckybackup set to backup my important folders to an external USB HDD.

8. Accidents will happen

As you are learning how to use and navigate you will have accidents that will require a full reinstall, don’t fear this has happened to everyone else and why you backup your files so it’s an annoyance instead of the end of the world.

What you can do is have a 1-2Tb SSD and use that as your day to day drive then use Timeshift to regularly backup the entire drive to a HDD.