Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Fedora will support booting from USB. The only reason left to boot from a DVD is if you need read only media for security purposes.
I’ve got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it’s got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it’s my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it’s what I turn to.
I just ripped the Blu-Ray drive from my father’s PC since he wasn’t using it.
Since my machine doesn’t have 5.25” bays, I just have SATA cables dangling out the side of the case. I’ve probably ripped more CDs than Blu-Rays, though.
Funnily enough my main computer does have a 5 1/4" bay. I wanted a Fractal meshify but there weren’t any in the world when I went to build my computer so I bought a Fractal Pop, and it has an optical bay down in the PSU basement.
It’ll definitely be a difficult undertaking, but I plan on really trying to have a 5.25” bay when I build another PC.
That probably won’t be for a couple more years, though. I’m on a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580, and I really don’t do that much intense gaming; a GPU upgrade is tempting so I can actually use ROCm for some casual Blender Cycles renders, though. I hope that the already dismal supply of those 5.25 cases doesn’t dwindle even more.
Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.
I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.
Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.
It’s probaly not needed at this point. You can get flash drives crazy cheap.
Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Fedora will support booting from USB. The only reason left to boot from a DVD is if you need read only media for security purposes.
Or you know, MP3s on DVD for the car.
Do you boot Linux from your music player?
Sounds like a project to me!
Did you misread? They wrote “the only reason left to boot from a DVD”, so the use case you replied with has nothing to do with the topic.
And it’s getting harder to find decent optical drives. USB external ones are utter buttgarbage.
I was hopeful I would find a decent bluray drive to rip some movies I have but I cant see anything priced as I would have thought and decent.
I got a usb dvd one that works fine
I’ve got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it’s got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it’s my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it’s what I turn to.
I just ripped the Blu-Ray drive from my father’s PC since he wasn’t using it.
Since my machine doesn’t have 5.25” bays, I just have SATA cables dangling out the side of the case. I’ve probably ripped more CDs than Blu-Rays, though.
Funnily enough my main computer does have a 5 1/4" bay. I wanted a Fractal meshify but there weren’t any in the world when I went to build my computer so I bought a Fractal Pop, and it has an optical bay down in the PSU basement.
It’ll definitely be a difficult undertaking, but I plan on really trying to have a 5.25” bay when I build another PC.
That probably won’t be for a couple more years, though. I’m on a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580, and I really don’t do that much intense gaming; a GPU upgrade is tempting so I can actually use ROCm for some casual Blender Cycles renders, though. I hope that the already dismal supply of those 5.25 cases doesn’t dwindle even more.
Get a Fractal Pop. It’s got a drive bay.
I have built a computer in a Fractal Meshify before, and I prefer that case, but the Pop is alright.
Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.
I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.
Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.