Thanks. Bookmarking for future reference.

Deploy database? You mean something like SQL?

1. What are basic Linux permissions?
2. What does chmod 777 do?

True. I think I’ll switch to Arch proper soon.

Didn’t know if it was supported but this clears it up. Thanks.

Do I have to use PC receiver or is that unnecessary?

No problem.

HOLY SHIT! YES! Thank you so much! I thought that drive was a goner. I was on the verge of just buying a new SSD. You just saved me a couple hundred bucks. Thank you once again!

I went ahead tried this but got an error when using makepkg -si:/home/[username]/ntfsprogs-ntfs3/PKGBUILD: line 45: autoreconf: command not found ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

I went to file in question and line 45 says this: autoreconf -vfi

That’s the thing: I don’t have Windows installed on that SSD. I double checked.

While I’m yet to do it myself, I would suggest getting a Thinkpad T480 and upgrading its RAM. The reason you want a T480 is because it was the last Thinkpad to have user removable parts. One tip: when using eBay, make sure you filter out the T480s. The T480s is not the same as the T480 since it doesn’t have user removable parts.