It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program
There’s a cheat button called sudo snapper rollback in OpenSUSE, it can be had in other distros as well.
AKA the “I cooked my install” button.
por que no los dos
This is how Tumbleweed cured my distrohopping—out-of-the-box Snapper meant painless rollbacks.
Re-installs are for
scrubswindows users. We don’t do that here. SSH from other machine, chroot from live usb, switch to TTY or even UEFI interactive shell. Fix your shit, and get to understand how it works while at it.Being able to do this is why Linux is so amazing. If Windows finds a corrupt file and can’t repair itself, you gotta find the package it’s part of (Windows update catalog), or create an ISO that’s updated to do an offline repair. If the registry gets fucked, good luck fixing that.
Exactly! I rant about this a lot, but I know at least couple of people who run with laptops that have broken audio. As it turns out, installing sound card drivers is not really an option as the janky-ass drivers that the manufacturers put out nowadays can irreparably brick your entire system. It is beyond my understanding why recovery, restore, and even safe mode would even try to load them in the first place, but, apparently they do, and then crash before you could even do anything, leaving re-install as the only option.
Meanwhile, I
rm -rf-ed my/bootdirectory the other day, and thendf-ed a couple gigs of/dev/zerostraight into/dev/sda. Got it back up running in just a few hours… of kicking myself for why would I do such a stupid thing.and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda
do you mean dd ?
Yes that’s the “spend hours” part.
If you reinstall enough things, enough times, it becomes a kink.
Ventoy ftw
OSSexual
GNU/OSSexual
Open Source Sexuality
sigh. here we go again…
unzips archive
Oh god, you’re zip bomb won’t fit in my drive 😩
65536 levels of nested goodness, bae-bae!
Saw this in my inbox and thought it was replying to this lol https://programming.dev/comment/10451457
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable“Copilot, show me Linux Rule 34”
You are edging?
Cool. I’m not into that kinda stuff, but whatever floats your boat :)
Extract here
This is why I’ve yet to make the leap from windows. I just don’t have the technical chops nor spare time to many my OS a hobby.
Not really the case with user-focused distros these days. I have far more driver woes when I have to deal with Windows.
In fairness, I suck at Linux. Ubuntu and Linux Mint are relatively easier systems. No one I know has issues with Ubuntu fwiw
newer hardware still will have issues…
Mint broke all the time for me last time i tried using it. After reinstalling it for like the 8th time, I just decided to take a break from Linux. This was like 6 years ago though.
It’s a different world now.
All jokes aside. Anything you use these days is going to be pretty stable, have all of your driver’s (unless it’s absolutely the bleeding edge) and play steam games.
Hell Nvidia isn’t even an issue anymore.
But I’ll qualify that by saying I’m on a 47xx i5 and a 1060.
I installed Mint on a USB to give it a go.
My wifi driver doesn’t work on it. I have to plug my phone in to use it as a tethered hotspot to get it to connect. And I tried what a lot of the guides said online. Nothing.
Check Fedora Atomic. It’s pretty much an install and forget system (with auto upgrade enabled)
Using Fedora Atomic is like having a dedicated team of fedora engineers manage your system and you only have to mess with your desktop settings.
If I had a nickel for every “its just install and forget” distro recommended, I could buy a windows license.
Or just install one of those distros and keep money for yourself?
This is why I’ve gone back to windows on the machines I care about and don’t plan on going back. Open source software is cool, but it also kinda sucks. I’ll use Linux all day on servers. But my primary desktop is windows and my secondary desktop is Mac OS and I doubt that’s changing any time soon.
Funny I’m the opposite - I have to use Windows bullshit all day long at work. The last thing I want at home is to deal with it there - pop_os is stable and works perfect for me.
I’d say I have the technical chops. I just don’t have the time and energy needed to try to fix something.
I’m also the kind of person that, if everything’s not working exactly the way I want it to, then I need to fix it right now. So I know I’d waste hours trying to fix something that (for me) just works on Windows.
In the olden days, I would have spent hours to fix it, completely forget everything I’ve done over the course of those two hours and then having to reinstall it bcs I’ve broken something else in those unsuccessful attempts and now dont have the energy to figure out this clusterfuck too.
Ahh, good memories.
You’re really selling me on Linux. Sounds like a nightmare
That was a decade+ ago, closer to two.
I’ve always had far more driver issues with Windows.
I have a niche laptop that for mic & speakers doesn’t really have drivers for that exact ID and a close (working) match are ancient, so can’t avoid crackling sounds. No issues out of the box with Linux.
Why doesnt the mass public liek Linux!?
Laughs in Fedora Atomic
Got into an argument about this once. The other person insisted that if I wipe my hard drive and reinstall, that I’m a pathetic moron who doesn’t deserve to use a computer.
In fairness, it’s usually better to fix things so you can learn, but dang they were toxic.
It’s great when you’re young and have the spare time and energy on such things.
To be fair, at least with Windows, if you do a reinstall I’ve always found that it never runs quite like it used to. I’ve sometimes had to deal with some weird quirks afterwards. A friend of mine who kept switching between Google Android and open-sourve Android on his phone said the same thing. Every time he reinstalled Google Android, it simply wouldn’t run as well as it did beforehand.
It’s like taking a plumbing pipe out and putting it back in. Or taking apart a car engine and putting it back together. It never quite fits together the way it used to anymore.
I had the opposite experience with Windows (7 up to 10), every now and then I would have to reinstall it to get some random feature working, which made the system run smoothly for a while - which checks out, considering Windows’ affinity for software rot.
Then again, I increasingly debloated it as time went on, which I’d assume contributes to its instability.
People like that are why more folks don’t like Linux and tech in general.
Bro, gatekeeping computers is something children do.
“You much get invited to a lot of parties?” is generally a good response. “Everyone makes mistakes, you’re living proof”.
It’s funny seeing this like literally a couple days after I decided it would be easier to reinstall my Mint sysyem than to fix the audio issues Pipewire was causing. I’m back on PulseAudio and haven’t had issues since.
I’ve been on Linux for about 15 years now … I’m no pro and I’ve never really advanced in anything with the terminal
I tried doing stuff years ago but then I came at a crossroad … either spend my life learning the dark arts of the terminal and all the details of how every major system works … reinstall every time I have a new problem that I caused … or just leave everything alone and never tweak or adjust anything.
For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything … never had a problem since.
For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything … never had a problem since.
And that’s exactly how I’m trying to approach everything after the reinstall. I like tinkering with my system, but after a couple months it really starts messing with everything.
How about NixOS where the OS automatically installs the correct software and chooses the right settings. Then you have the time fiddle on your config for hours 🌈
Real shit.
Press both
Once you learn about BRTFS snapshots you’ll never have this issue again
Burtfuss
