Mewtamer. Thanks for your post.
I understand about losing small items. Speaking of which. I have this USB hub.
I could not find it for the life of me.
Turns out it was on the floor and I was stepping on it over and over again
*blush*.
I needed it as the USB SD card reader the card was too long and was running
into my braille display and keyboard usb connectors.
So I guess even bigger than small things can get lost.
I personally don't care much whether its a big or small sd card. I kind of like
the micro sd card choice.
That having been said. Maybe in their next PI release they will introduce a
machine with a full sized as well as a micro SD card slot. Basically so people
could use what they prefer.
Just a thought.
In any case. Yeah bleh on windows. And agree totally with all you said on that
topic.
I do understand about the SD cards btw.
I just am ok with micro SD cards I guess. But I keep them in their bigger sd
cards to hold them and keep them safe when I am not using them.
And yes it would be nice to have two sd cards. One for system and one for data.
Right now I will just use one of my USB thumb drives to back up any data I wish
too.
Jessica
Honestly, I'm not convinced there are people who actually like
Windows. Even the so-called good versions only ever seem to get praise
compared to the proceeding bad versions and at best, people have no
serious issues with Windows while most people seem to use it either
because they don't know Linux exists, can't afford Apple, can't be
bothered to learn a different OS(despite Microsoft changing things to
the point of having to relearn Windows every few versions), or because
of some third party software that's Windows-only that they can't or
are unwilling to find a cross platform alternative to.
I'm not fond of USB flash drives either, but personal opinion,
switching from the full-sized SD card slot on the original Pi to
microSD was the worst decision the Raspberry Pi Foundation ever made(I
like my memory cards being big enough I can actually find them if I
drop them, thank you very much) and would absolutely love a Kit that
included an adaptor for using full-sized SD as system card and a case
that exposed the upgraded SD slot to the outside world. A second
full-sized SD slot for a Data card would also be amazing, especially
with a physical switch to swap which card is system and which is data
for dual booting without card swapping.
How nerve wracking it is to handle microSD aside, I do like that the
Pi offers a fairly easy means of swapping distros on the go.
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