If I pay 100+ dollars for something I expected to ship with basic drivers. If it’s free, I’m un surprised if and when it rarely doesn’t have the drivers I need
ok one more joke…
Linux Video Driver after an update repair starter kit
Dishwasher breaks a plate - heck this stupid machine
Now if I break a plate – oh well, stuff happens
Oh man I built my kernel and added some patches and oh boy did I fuck my install. Had to start it over, so annoying. Thankfully I had everything backed up took me an hour to get it all fixed.
Ever trigger OOM in alpine Linux in aarch64?
“Oh you broke weirdly…”
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The internet is run by Linux machines. Windows and Mac aren’t hosting that shit, Linux is. Even Microsoft uses Linux for that. France and Germany are switching over after seeing enormous cost savings. Gamers are flocking to it to make their old hardware less terrible to use and distros like bazzite are making it easy. AI data centers are all running on Linux. Not a single one runs windows 11 or windows server, at least not bare metal.
Windows is most common as an endpoint device that’s not very important and does comparatively little work. It’s a terminal UI at this point.
Everybody is using it. Literally nothing you use your windows box for would run with out it. Take a seat.
Click the little dots people, hit block, carry on.
Android is Linux… did you know that?
While Linux isn’t the most used system on desktops, it’s easily the most used OS overall…
Because humans are creatures of habit, and as long as stuff works for them, even suboptimally, a lot of people aren’t inclined to change their habits, even if it might mean a change would improve their lives. As long as sth is “good enough”, there simply isn’t an incentive for change.
Also, since there isn’t a huge corporation behind Linux, there is literally no direct advertisement for it, so people who aren’t into tech simply never will get in touch with it.
Try trolling more subtly in the future.
I mean that’s the whole deal for me. I can take it if I know I can fix it
There is no fixing microsoft
There is no fixing microsoft
But there is. People create their own fixes, configurations and utilities all the time.
By reverse engineering black box shit, then providing binaries everyone is just supposed to trust don’t also contain malware?
And those binaries are to fix the black box shit that is subject to alteration at any time, rendering them useless.
Yeah, because they usually don’t. One reason I started using Linux was that I started caring more about security. However, Windows tweaking apps never burned me.
Still
me shily walking over to my timeshift snapshots after running
sudo chmod -R 775 /
Instead of with a dot…
NixOS
my system config is in git.
my home folder is in syncthing with a command to stop sync if a significant change is requested.
Sure is fucking hard to setup tho :)
Meanwhile i can’t setup a fucking web project so indexing doesn’t take 5 minutes 😭🤣
(seriously asking)
Why even use ./ if you can just use . and are not executing anything? Am I missing something? It seems like a bad habit.
(OK on my case of course the incentive to use dot is higher than slash because it needs shift contrary to dot)
Plot twist: Your snapshots were mounted when you did that and are now also very accessible.
People actually thought about that… so snapshots are read-only by design
shudders
But no I use an externall HDD docked with a… Usb dock thing whatever it’s called
That’s accessible from a USB Ubuntu… Right?
Right???
Sounds to me like you haven’t tested your backups suitably if you are asking.
I did test with a usb. I’m joking
TimeShift was probably one of the most important teaching aides I had when I first started on Linux.
I’ve been on Bazzite for a couple years now, so I have no need for it anymore.
But I learned sooooo much by breaking my EndeavourOS install and then rolling back.
I’ve only had to rollback with Bazzite once so far (it’s hard to break), and it was literally just one rpm-ostree command. Love it.
I accidentally made my entire home directory executable and I only backup individual projects on my laptop since it doesnt have much valuable data. that was annoying to fix
Linux Inc. does not spend billions of dollars ensuring you have no options but Linux.
It also doesn’t exist, so that helps too.
My favourite Corporations are the ones that don’t exist
And take a look at the platinum members
The goddamn page required me to enable JS to see the list, after which Firefox immediately pushed the system into swap.
Anyway, makes sense since the foundation afaik funds and coordinates development of some important low-level stuff, and these dudes are invested into that (since Fuchsia apparently went nowhere, hehe). Although idk what the foundation wants with React or Neo4j.
One of the reasons I love Linux, actually.
Nobody to blame but myself, so let’s start figuring this shit out I guess
You can dig as deep as you care to, all the way down to source code. And if you can’t read code, you can learn to. If you don’t want to spend the time, that’s completely reasonable. But it’s your choice.
Tbf the biggest problems i had with linux were caused by some Windows partition so the first image may as well apply to the second case sometimes.
I weirdly got a problem after blowing away my windows partition
Shutting down the computer (mint) doesn’t fully shut down anymore, so I gotta physically hold down the power button til it goes off
Internet says something with grub is probs wack, but I’m lazy so I just made a shortcut to “shutdown -f 0” and called it good
Afaik grub should not have any effect on shutting down. Grub is the bootloader, after it has loaded the kernel, it’s done.
Hell if I know, I recall some discussion involving grub no-splash but maybe I’m conflating the forum posts I read. The main idea is that some process is running and preventing the graceful shutdown but I haven’t read the posts in a while.
I do find it odd this only happened after a reinstall where grub is realistically the only change (shifting the install drive + boot options, deleting windows)
I know I gotta do some digging if I want to fix it but I’ve got other fish I’d rather fry
Eh, not always. For months after I started using Bazzite, Dolphin’s Windows EXE thumbnailer didn’t work. Should it have worked? Yeah. Why didn’t it? Who fucking knows. Did it get fixed? Yes. How did it get fixed? New Plasma version I guess.
But you could find out all of those things by looking for the code and the PR that fixed it. You could also have debugged it, since source code is available. Not so on windows generally.
Thats the other thing: a glaring issue or bug with linux is likely to be fixed within a few days.
Ive had issues with microsoft in 2012 that still exist today
Other Linux users to you: RTFM you fucking donkey!
Hot take: user-friendly system shouldn’t require the manual to operate normally.
Some things are just inherently complex. And especially if you’re going to use CLI (not user unfriendly in any way imo), you’re gonna want to make sure you’re typing in the right stuff.
Linux has the manuals built-in, they’re called “man pages”
Let’s start learning with how to use man:
man manWoah, I had no idea about this. It look like there is a lot to dig into, thanks!
You’re welcome! There is also
tldrthat’s quite useful too.
People in these parts will throw shade at macOS, and I get it. But whatever you think of Apple, they’ve traditionally done a pretty good job of making their OS such that you don’t really need a manual unless you start doing more complex stuff. Someone who’s not particularly computer literate can buy a cheap Mac and have it up and running in no time, without ever really needing to seek help.
cheap Mac
Where?
Buy used. Worked great for me.
I mean, ‘cheap’ is subjective. The Neo seems like a decent buy right now, and as the other reply said, there’s always used. These things truck along nicely for many a year.
For desktop useage, fair enough; though, keep in mind that linux started and still is a server os primarily. DEs started out for the developers to have the ability to have some GUI on the side as well, no reason to hate themselves for no reason. I use arch for desktop useage, not server useage, and I’m aware that I’m the insane one, and linux being the even more insane one for actually working for what it’s not even designed for. DE’s are a GNU thing and all that, but still a bunch of packages made to be modular by default rather than well integrated for a specific experience. So while it is up to the developers to develop their packages, it’s the distro maintainers to make it user-friendly for desktop useage; where if something is really needed, someone will make it - if noone makes it, the suggestions of popular demand will be enough motivation for someone to make it sooner or later. I often feel bad for relying on the “someone”, which is why we donate, to show appreciation and support the things we love.
keep in mind that linux started and still is a server os primarily. DEs started out for the developers to have the ability to have some GUI on the side as well
Absolute nonsense. Unix GUIs and workstations predate Linux. The X Window System was first released in 1984, the Motif widget toolkit in 1989, and both were alternatives to existing proprietary GUIs. The workstation landscape was a Wild West before Windows prevailed.
Hot take: oh, linux systems do operate normally. Until they get butchered by user
Hotter take: Ease of access has ruined modern computing. The ideal desktop interface is the one they have in the Alien universe.
Is this you?
We need to get over that for newbs. The experienced person already knows they’re a donkey.
Yeah every issue is basically a mystery that will lead you down a rabbit hole, be prepared to learn a lot of things and copy and paste code you do not fully understand, well if you are a layman like me
Or just keep back ups and reinstall the OS.
Honestly I’ve been using Linux for like 15 years and there have been times that just reinstalling which takes 45 minutes would have been the fastest and easiest solution to a problem I will likely never encounter again.
I recently switched to CachyOS. While I don’t have the same hard-on for it that most users seem to have, I like how it’s set up by default to create a btrfs snapshot of the root filesystem before and after each update. Grub can even boot into individual snapshots directly. I’m almost looking forward to the day it saves my ass after an update breaks my system.
Same except I’m using Limine. Cachy has been incredibly smooth for me, despite the reputation surrounding arch.
My new go to plan. Thank you for the idea!
Timeshift or equivalent, love my daily backups and very fast restore plus 2 anchor points. Saved me a few times and the gf once so far.
When you go down the rabbit hole a debate starting from scratch again:
45 minutes to re-install the OS.
Another couple of hours to get all of the common programs you use downloaded and installed.
A full month or more of customizing everything to your preferences and downloading the programs you rarely use.
You completely skipped the “keep backups” part which prevents most of this.
If you have things backed up well that shouldn’t take more than a few minutes but yeah there is definitely an argument to be made depending on your preference.
This is where Ansible comes in.
No, that’s pretty typical even for an experienced Windows admin.
