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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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