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.
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
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.
Still new, trying Linux Mint Cinnamon. I don’t think I can break it. It’s super user friendly.
Don’t worry. You can. Just keep tinkering. Get that Timeshift ready…
I put mint on My laptop at work and it took 3 months for anyone to ask me about it. My laptop is frequently used by 5 other people with zero Linux experience lol, and barely any real PC experience.
I put mint on my elderly moms pc. Basically no difference for her. Also less maintenance and issues, since all she does is use the browser, Libre Office writer and print.
That’s awesome lol, if she can manage so can anyone else.
This might be the year lol
Mine breaks on its own once I sit down with my food to watch some videos.
I fucking swear it knows when I’m eating.
I probably have a faulty CPU, though. I wish there was an easy way to tell (after several flawless RAM tests and two different GPUs),
Start dmesg when you’re eating, put it in the corner. You can cancel out murphys law with a watched pot never boils.
Thanks, I’ll try that! Does it even save if the PC freezes solid? Because that’s what usually happens.
It was a joke, but actually, yeah, it has a good chance.
When if freezes, whatever was going wrong will likely be all over the dmesg log. as long as it’s just frozen, you’ll likely see what was going on. there’s usually at least some brief inkling before it explodes.
Because:
- You pay for windows (“supposed to pay” atleast)
- You cant be mad at a community effort. Don’t like it? Fork it or help fix it.
Indeed, last time I paid for windows was like windows 7. Only free upgrades since then.
But fixing a bug is not as simple as “fork it or help fix it”, those are by far the most complicated options that only a tiny faction of users (can) take.
“help fix it” can be opening a good issue with instructions on how to recreate and details, it can be testing new features and fixes, or even paying someone some money to fix it for you and contribute to upstream. (Gitcoin, upwork etc.)
How to recreate it? There are SO many variables. I am not going to set up a new system just too see if I can replicate some bug… unless it is a really big issue with something very important, at which point someone already did that.
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…”
Well… Funny but not quite true. Let’s talk about updating certain distro that always break something new. Now before we go into distro wars, I’m aware I could just go for a more “stable” distro but yeah, problems definily occurs in Linux but I would never go back to windows.
If your are on a rolling release distro, that’s on you. Especially one that needs to build everything as part of the install process. We know what we signed up for.
Skill issue.
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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.
