On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 05:02:38PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > > The DVD drive on my Dell Inspiron laptop has died. > > I see three options: > > 1. Get it fixed > 2. Replace it > 3. Ignore it and get an external DVD > > Which would you recommend? > > (I'm running Linux Mint.)
If you go for option 3 then you already have a drive for your next machine, which will most likely not come with one since that seems to be the way things are going. My wife replaced her DVD with a second hard disk in her laptop. She thought it was a better use of the space. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk