Honestly my Windows 10 experience wasn’t much different.
Atleast I can actually fix most of the issues that pop up on Linux
I was struggling to get an OS installed on my cousin’s dell at one point. This machine came with that Intel Optane…shit with a spinning rust hard drive, I was replacing it with a straight-up NVMe SSD. Windows would get well into the install process, and then bomb out with an error that was something like 0x123a039f34798cd76eb1 UNDEFINED ERROR. This of course was in the Windows installer, which isn’t a functioning desktop environment, so I had to type that manually into my laptop to google it, and got very few results.
I tried Linux Mint, and it apparently had the same problem. It said something like “BIOS Storage config error. Unable to mount file system. It may be that such and such setting is incorrect in the BIOS. See this page for further details.” The last sentence was a hyperlink to a wiki that discussed the problem, which opened in Firefox because this installer runs in a live environment, AND IT HAD A QR CODE LINK IN THE ERROR MESSAGE to the same page so you could easily copy the link to an external device. Y’all that was a white glove concierge deep tissue massage of an error message.
All other times, reinstall OS and keep /home/.
I will pretend that i haven’t seen that “other” there
It’s funny, but as an adult now… I’m more concerned my ADHD is like this. It’s so annoying. I don’t even mean to do it. I set out to clean my desktop computer files and the next thing I know I’m painting the garage. Oh and ESPECIALLY if something is important. My mind creates these distractions or ‘focuses’ which allow me to fully set my mind on something, as long as it’s to avoid doing something else… 🤦♂️
Yeah last week I found myself thinking "blazeknave what the fuck are you doing?? You’re prepping online research, for your meeting in five minutes. How did you end up sorting the linen closet? Fuck you man! "
It’s either this or everything works for years literally without a single problem.
I once deployed a small service in 2016. It was a sort of configurable API, that other companies could post information to. Every company’s information came in a different json structure, but I built the thing to be able to accept a new structure, with new configuration data (no new coding needed for new formats).
Then in 2019, I was interviewing for a job and they asked me to talk about something I’d built that was reliable and I was able to report that this little service, running in docker compose, had been up continually for the last two years with zero errors.
I remember installing Uhuntu back in 2012 as middle schooler, and never encountering any error at all.
That’s me running Debian. Or rather…
FrankenDebian.I’m on Debian and that kind of stuff basically doesn’t happen. For the first couple weeks I broke stuff every once in a while because I didn’t know how Linux worked, but it’s basically been smooth sailing on all my computers for about six months.
Contrast with the Windows 10 on the same laptop which just the other day decided it doesn’t want to play anymore. I guess I ran an update the last time I touched it (like a month ago) and now it won’t boot. Debian boots perfectly. Even in safe mode, I can’t boot into Windows and Automatic Startup repair refuses to work even using both the recovery USB and installation media. Probably going to have to reinstall Windows from scratch.
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I literally didn’t even boot Windows for a month and then when I did, I got BSOD on boot, and it gave me some bullshit about not being able to find a device. How’s that for maintenance? I can’t say I miss it.
Must be doing something wrong if this is the everyday experience (especially for production). And there’s the ones wanting to experiment, which is a different thing. I guess that’s why this is a meme.
LTS and no tinkering are for production. And yes, they will be stable AF.
You got the joke.
I’m proud of you.
Been running Fedora since June of last year, and it’s the most “boring” distro I’ve ever used. It’s been rock solid and I haven’t experienced a single issue. None! I have an all-AMD build. The funny thing is that I recently installed Ubuntu 23.10 on a different PC, and I managed to break it after a couple of hours 😂
Been using Linux on and off since 2008 (ish).
I pulled out of the Redhat world around 2002 and only recently got back into it via Nobara. I have to agree, Fedora is boringly stable and still pretty cutting edge.
Same here. I switched to Fedora last year and it’s been so easy…too easy 🤔
This is after the third reboot, and automatic updates were off and I never accepted an update. All I wanted to do was sideload obtanium into the Facebook spy mask and I thought it would be easier than figuring out why it wouldn’t show up in adb on Linux.
All I wanted to do was sideload obtanium into the Facebook spy mask and I thought it would be easier than figuring out why it wouldn’t show up in adb on Linux.
Those are certainly words.
obtainium is a catch-all apk installer/updater.
Facebook spy mask I’m not sure.
did you try universal android debloater?
I didn’t know about this project and will look into it for future use when family inevitably complains about their phones every time they get a new one without asking me what I think of it first. It’s the quest 3 headset I was talking about. It does come with some apps I haven’t tried that give the impression of bloat but I would be surprised if the device is within the scope of the project.
I did manage to install obtanium and in turn a bunch of other stuff though. Just needed to wait for windows to reboot an additional time, and now it seems to take an additional keypress to get rid of the lock screen before the password box. I’ll probably just try to find the time to figure out what was wrong on the Linux side of things for the future.
haha, no worries. good to see a fellow FOSS enjoyer
I run Arch by the way
I just turn on the Ubuntu computer, play games, Clic the occasional button to install updates and then keep doing my stuff. No maintenance stuff needed unless I mess something up on purpose with tinkering.
average Ubuntu enjoyer. Though I’ve gotten bored so I updated it to 23.10.
Community will crucify me for this, but Linux DE maintenance is the bane of my existence.
Shit “just works” until it inevitably doesn’t, and it takes Linus himself to figure out how to unfuck it due to the absolutely insane level of version churn packages & distros see over the years, making most resources short of “just reinstall it” a fools errand.
Servers? Beautiful. Desktop environments? I literally can’t anymore… Having something go to shit when I REALLY need to get something done has forced me to always have Windows on hand.
Which has turned into “Windows primary” and "Linux DE secondary " over the years. I hate Windows, I yearn for my plasma desktop, but it’s almost always more reliably stable without maintenance for longer in my experience.
/rant
I don’t understand what people are doing to their machines. I’ve been using Arch Linux exclusively for ~10yrs now and only ONCE had a problem when upgrading Java. That was fixed in about 10mins after reading the Arch update notes.
Most recently I’ve been running AwesomeWM for 2yrs and it’s been so bloody stable and simple. I found KDE just as stable before but a bit heavy for my taste.
Exactly this, I’ve had the same install of the “most unstable de” -arch btw for about 8 years and its fucking fine, yes sometimes you have to remove some old dependancys… the command line had always told me exactly what’s wrong and a quick google later if I’m unsure, blamo it’s fixed like new… haven’t used Windows in about 10 years
This sounds about right. Currently everything on mine works. But it’s like… For how long?
Edit. Actually almost everything lmao. YouTube drains crazy battery ATM. Probably hardware acceleration not working.
This. This exactly. I’m wanting to teach my kids how to use Linux and first I want them to get used to it so I’m exposing them to computers through gCompris… So one of the features of the software stops working I don’t know why I uninstall it I reinstall it. Same problem. So now I’ve got to go figure out what’s wrong with the OS itself that’s causing that problem in the software or just reinstall it, the OS that is, because that’ll only take a few minutes to kick off and I can just leave it alone and it’ll finish whereas the OS troubleshooting could take days or it could be something I never figure out.
Not to mention wrapping wifi drivers… 😭
For fun, I once decided I’d figure it out. I was doing a job where I had free time at work and there was spare hardware sitting around so I decided to go ahead and do it.
PAIN. So painful.
I love Linux, but I like to work on whatever I want to work on, not what the OS decides I need to work on that day.
Not to mention wrapping wifi drivers… 😭
Jesus, people still use ndis-wrapper? 🤨
I was hacking together older hardware,but yes. Also it was a while ago.
That must’ve been really really old hardware.
I think so. Just pieces parts sitting around at work.
Yeah, I got junk at work too… just not laptops that old, lol 😂. Rigs? Sure, tons of them, even some PI rigs, still working BTW, lol 😂.
This is why I run Debian. 😀
My Fedora Kinoite box is fucking effortless, it updates in the background just needs a reboot from time to time. I have scripted updating the containers that host my home services, I run the script from time to time and it pulls a new container image and recreates the container, updates the systemd services to match the new container ids.
I love Kinoite so much!
