• finkrat@lemmy.world
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    “Why doesn’t this just work I never had this problem on Windows!!” leaves no necessary information to troubleshoot

    Vs.

    “I have this specific and obscure workflow I use with this one package nobody has heard of, I perform XYZ action and after I ran pacman -Syu I’m seeing that the application is segfaulting and leading to this call trace…”

    Five page dump of dmesg

    “I mapped this to line 748 of the Linux-Zen kernel source file can somebody help explain how I can work around this?”

    No responses for eternity, thread archived

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    Me, installimg a few Flatpak apps, having them work for a while then suddenly break for no apparent reason, spend an enture day trying to fix them, only for an update acouple days later to fix it.

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      Me when my sound randomly goes poof and starts acting on the fritz

      Terminal please run my pulse killer file. Fixed.

      Then sometimes my chat/game mixer just breaks. And one only works, then on a random day it is just mysteriously works again without doing anything.

      Then my windows laptop is like: File Explorer crashes fairly regularly. Word died sometimes. The battery percentage is now just a percentage with no number!

      Now my WiFi toggle states it’s offline… Opens networks, ah lovely it says connected. Same with Bluetooth.

      Much rather just have the more reliable Linux.

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        Lol, that used to happen to me a lot when I used Windows. I resized my Linux partition and rarely return, I only have the basics installed because of some uni projects that might require Windows software and it still manages to bug while updating or opening Teams

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    There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary.

    Those that do And those that don’t

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      The two hardest problems in programming are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.

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    This was fixed ages ago, but you are using Debian because it is “stable” and thus software from ages ago and don’t have the fix.

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    ProtonDB comments… at the very least say if you’re using an nvidia or AMD card ffs