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Okay. Please help me as I ask COMPUTER BABBY QUESTIONS.

I have a Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 (AMD).
It has a 256 GB HD. That's too small. I want to buy a new, bigger one. I have a sense the good hard drives these days are "M.2".

Lenovo's specs page

lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/thi

doesn't say anything about "M.2". It says the hd is "PCIe".

I run "lshw" to see what's on the computer. It says "NVMe".

How do I find out the bestest fastest aftermarket drive Canada Computers carries that my computer will support

@mcc I run stable on my desktop, with the testing and unstable sources added in case I need them. I didn't need them in the last 2 years....

Flatpaks for every GUI app that's not in the Debian repo's.

What makes my system even more resilient is setting it up with btrfs snapshots and timeshift. Adding grub-btrfs and timeshift-autosnap-apt creates a system that creates a snapshot every time I install software.

@iceqbe hmmmm… how much work is btrfs to work with

@mcc There is definitely some work at the time of setup: moving the existing btrfs root, creating a subvolume for your home folder, creating a few folders for mountpoints and editing fstab. After the Debian setup is done, you have to clone 2 git repo's and do a make install.

If you need a guide, I can put mine online later today (it's 8am here and life is happening).

mcc

@iceqbe I don't think I'm doing it this install but if you write that I'll read it!