so what distribution to use for mining?
ubuntu?
I like Debian
But any Linux is fine if you can install Java
Java 11 has some performance improvement
But you can only build with Java 8
You can run both, but need java_home environment var pointed to 8
This is for another machine
still will be using windows though
Windows works
Doesn't seem to have as good filesytem optimization
But works and works as a memory miner fine
with one drive though?
Will a java jar run on linux that runs on windows?
Yes
I think crypto is still broken though
good luck fixing that
What is broken?
As far as I am aware, everything works fine on windows
especially since we are using java native crypto libraries, so it doesn't matter what windows libraries do
I meant crypto in general
but the cpu usage is too high on windows?
It seems to be higher for a similar amount of disk activity
you can only mine on one drive
arktika should allow you to use more, however that doesn't mean the windows IO system is fast enough to handle it
okay