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Yes, but I usually do not need such storage capacities, I never needed them so far. For the usual everyday needs to store this and that I still use mostly CDs over DVDs, because they are sufficient for that. Or I use bigger capacity USB-sticks, 64GB. Or an external HD. For long time storage, HDs are the safest option, the data could be often rescued by specialists even if the contorl electronics and chips have broken down. USB sticks are the unsafest, their break-down rate is higher than that of any other storage medium.

I think financially the system is worth its price even without a bluray burner, due to the modern processor and speed, the very good - they write - IPS panel, and the very good - so they write - sound system. I will see in some days.

Did a first investigation into Virtual Box VM. Seems to be quite capable and reliable, but is not as easy as I hoped it would be. After a first half an hour of reading an introduction to installing it, I have understood little to nothing. That the background tasks of Linux under the graphical surface are no world I am familiar with, does not help either.

Its like with the very early Windows versions in the 90s - many power users still used a CLI window to do more complex stuff, it was more precise and worked faster than doing that stuff via the GUI of Windows, often it also was the only way to get certain stuff done. Same with Linux. The ordinary every day tasks can be wonderfully done under Mint Cinnamon, and linux works much faster and much more problem-free and reliable than Windows - but when you need to work on the system itself, you often need to fall back to Linux' pendant of a CLI, although under Mint the need to do so seems to be met less often than under many other Linux distributions.