Good morning to all my readers.
It's now the second day of using the upgraded notebook, and so far I'm loving it. It's much faster without Windows 11 ( which I didn't want ) and the screen has a vastly superior resolution. This did surprise me, as I would have though the drivers would have been very similar in both Windows and Ubuntu. Bodhi is a cut down version of Ubuntu. This concept of minimalisation is a bit of a two edged sword. It makes the machine run much faster, but if you want anything other than a basic system, you have to open terminal and load it yourself. I'm having to refresh my memory of exciting commands such as sudo.
I'm going to move on from this thread, as I'm taking the excellent advice I have been given, and dropping the idea of using USB sticks or SDcards to store an active blockchain. I think they are still handy for wallet and blockchain backups though. Electrum or some other wallet provider seems a better idea for the netbook, and I may even consider loading Bodhi onto an old Chromebook, and using that as an alternative method to make Bitcoin payments. I'll start a new thread about running a full node on the Notebook when I have started Core, and seen how it performs with the new drive. I'm slightly concerned about overheating, but I'm hoping that, by using public WiFi, it will not achieve its full potential. That may avoid the need for a heat sink.
