NUC Base

I did not use my NUC Base as a portable device.
Instead of I used my external disk with Linux in them to boot.
That means I have to chose each device on boot up and GRUB did not have all devices recognized.
What I did was opened the NUC removed the SSD inside and put a SSD without a GRUB and reinstalled Debian and Emma.
Emma recognized all the distributions in three SSDs.
Finally I disconnected the two external SSDs.
If I want to boot Star Linux or Sparky Linux I would stick the external disk and pick and choose  the distribution I want from GRUB Menu.
NUC Base is quiet and no games.
I have only 4GB RAM 4.
Removing the SSD was difficult with finger.
Nothing to hold on to.
I used a pair pincers to slip it out.
Top enclosure has SATA power cord and data cord.
There is no room to manipulate my fingers and use my hand to slip out without pulling out data and power cords.
It has no ports for new NVMe cards with high capacity high energy use.
My requirements are minimal and if you have lot of stuff choose a NUC with better CP and motherboard.

Otherwise you would be disappointed.

Wait till prices come down.

We are back to power cuts in Ceylon.

I was making a USB stick with multiple Linux Options when the power cut mode came into operation.

I am using Linux MiltDysyem Utility.

By the way, Emmabantus had MultiSystem as an application, which another plus point of Emma.

Luckily UPS lasts more than 20 minutes and I  safely exited.
I bought it for Rs.45,00/= and it is now Rs.15,000/=.
I should have bought another one.
I have another UPS which back up 10 minutes.

This NUC boots up any USB stick with a distribution except BSD.


On a different top why all the guys in the West dick with Russian paranoia?
I am intrigued by YouTube guys not talking about Russian Linux distributions.
Star has Mobile, Tablet and Desktop mode which is very good approach for a Laptop.
If you can stick the cellphone mobile mode is good to unload excess data and photos to the NUC or PC.
Russian unlike American are practice minded.
Only down side is one user per computer which is capitalistic mind set.
One cannot make your PC a Family Unit.
I have overcome it by using multiple distributions.
I tried various method to dual boot with Star Linux and failed with my old Laptop butx not with NUC.
This is old due to old BIOS not supporting dual boooting.
I actually used BSD on a DVD to erase BIOS dictates.
BSD full version (not the USB mode) does not boot from my Laptop.

By the way, Star Linux is Debian based and it has introduced Russian Fly Desktop to Debian.
Developers from outside Russia should make a note of it's innovative approach.

I have found another problem with Linux Mint.
It's GRUB boot detection is hopeless.
It could not detect Sparky Linux and Russian Star Linux in one of my external SATA disk.

I am installing Ubuntu 22.10 again to get the GRUB configuration correct and to detect all my external drives.
I am on a relaxed mode but did not erase Mint.

My choice of Linux distributions.

Let me start with PoP OS and PCLinux both USB sticks boot up with my Laptop but did not bother to install since both are scarred of Windows hegemony.
Number 1 is Debian.
Number 2 Emmabantus.
Number 3 is old edition of Debian.
Number 4 Sparky Linux especially  Game Over edition.
Number 5 Mint Cinnamon desktop followed by Mate desktop.
Number 6 is Star Linux.
Number 7 Arch Linux BlueStar edition.
I did not like the Arch MX Edition.