Quick Linux Question
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Would it be better overall to mine on a linux box vs windows?
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@jstoner82 take the operating system you like more ... you will have no benefits from one or the other. Some software is only available for windows, but all possible with linux, too.
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That sucks, I was just curious if id get better dl times, these suck, i see ppl with less hdd space getting better times.
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@jstoner82 I have a 120GB miner on my phone that won a block .... it's down to the luck of the draw.
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Personally I find more good deadlines when i seperate each nonce block (of say 16384) into multiple files, so it reads 4gb plot files each and grabs a bunch of nonces from it.
But OS's are the same like @luxe said, no advatage.
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Roger that, thanks for the input. I currently have 7 drives. 5 x 500GB drives, each have 1 500GB plot, 1 x 1TB drrive, plotted with a 1 tb plot and a 2TB drive that I am having poblems with, have only one 500GB plot on it working. Thinking about replotting the 2tb drrive uing xplotter with a single 2TB file. The plotter inside the burst client or win aio givess me an error mssage saying it would plot fater if it had admin priv's, So I am manually doing with xplotter so I can run it with admin rights.
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I found wplotgenerator to be the fatest tbh, but depending on which miner you use (I suggest Blago's) depends on your return.
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I have been playing around with both Blago's miner and Jminer, no real improvement using jminer though.
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@jstoner82 I'm Linux guy and I prefer Linux in any implementation, except in mining! Windows have better drivers for GPUs and other components.
In Burst case, NTFS is an advantage.
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I prefer Linux over windows. Its stable and no viruses. Windows I always find some bugs at unexpected moments with blue screens and unspecified errors. I only go to windows when there is no option such as games.
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wplotgenerator is only faster because it doesnt optimize the plot. Over all xplotter is faster because it does both.
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@tross Oh really, I was not aware xplotter optizes plots as well. Thank you for the heads up. I was about to start working on optimizing my plots, so you just save me a lot of time. Thank you buddy!

