Hmmm… 🤔

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      btrfs subvolume snapshot / /snapshots/backup1 lol

      Won’t save you from a bricked bootloader tho haha

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        Once I manually deleted a snapshot folder because I didn’t see it listed, and thought it was “orphaned” and just taking up space. :D

        “SUDO THAT SUCKER!!” 👉

        OS says “Okie dokie boss.”

        Suddenly none of my commands are working.

        Turns out I deleted the currently mounted active snapshot . Safe to say it was reinstall time.

        Don’t go manually touching system files, folks. 😂

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      Well I updated my computer and my audio stopped working; to the logs! Lol I love Linux, but find myself asking “what now?” much more frequently with it…

      With windows it is more like “wtf is this new ad on my start menu?” Or “how can I opt out of all these features no one ever asked for?”

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        One time an update broke audio, and I spent like 15 minutes digging around in pipewire logs and weird config parameters before I realized that I was literally just muted lol. Pulseaudio has irrevocably conditioned me to assume that whenever there is no audio, it must be some obscure bizzare weird issue instead of something simple

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          This is definitely a thing!!

          We’re using Linux so we just assume it’s some highly technical issue right off the bat lol. This has caught me a few times. 😂

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    I haven’t seen a blue screen in years.

    Yes, Linux Preachers, I am a Windows user.

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    I’m a Linux user, and I have “X11 decides to lock up the entire system irrecoverably for no reason” syndrome. Should probably look into wayland…

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      X does fall over sometimes. Since I’ve been on Fedora KDE running Wayland, I’ve had a couple “you’re now in recovery mode” moments as well.

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    I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

    There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

    I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

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      shutdown.exe -a should take care of situations like that. It’s not an excuse for taking away your options on the UI though.

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        Does that require admin access? It wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

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          By default a normal user can abort the shutdown. They could also configure group policy to prevent shutdown permissions which also prevents aborting a shutdown.

          The GPO is Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Shut down the system.

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        What about all those update skippers that start complaining to Microsoft when their system breaks because they don’t understand that updates are crucial for a good running system?

        I get why Microsoft forces it now on the Home editions.

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      I don’t want to be that guy, because I still hate Windows, but… most people who have these problems just didn’t set up updates properly. Well, that, or they never restart their computer.

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      Greyed out options like that almost always mean the person has been hitting cancel or delay for several warnings already.

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    Since when did the Blue Screen concept change from being an actual error screen to simply the Windows update screen?

    I’m guessing shortly after Windows began implementing aforementioned update screen?

    This is the first I’ve heard it referred to as the Blue Screen.

    For reference: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

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      If you browse linux communities long enough, you eventually start seeing openbsd users who condescendingly speak about linux the same way some linux users speak about windows lol. It’s turtles all the way down!

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        But this isn’t a linux community though, it is a meme community.

        The linuxmemes are on a different community.

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      I’ve had a black screen of death on Mint. All I was trying to do was crop a video on kdenlive. It black screened on me and somehow even messed up the boot menu so that my Mint was showing up as just Ubuntu. I went straight back to Shotcut after that. I really wanted to switch from Windows to Linux, but so far, Linux, or at least Mint, really hates me. Up till recently, I was still using Mint for my music storage, but it has trouble even moving files onto my phone now. I’ve pretty much given up.

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        if want to diagnose black screen, can use sudo journalctl -S "TIME" to see journal since TIME (“X min ago”, timestamp, etc.). may have message on error.

        can try syncthing to move file to/from phone

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    Windows user here. I don’t have a fear of BSODs.

    On the other hand, I have “Linux users are elitist jerks” syndrome, which stops me from switching to Linux, due to a fear of Linux users might be elitist jerks. This can be only cured by massive improvements to the Linux community, and a debugger that has an actual GUI for Linux (no, I don’t care about whatever cute little script you’ve written for GDB for a semi-automated testsuite for command line utility that converts one obscure format into another).

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      “Linux users are elitist jerks”

      Elitist jerks are elitist jerks. Ever talked to a stuck-up Windows I.T admin? The constant scoffing is unreal.

      What about people rich (or financially goofy) enough to obsess with Apple products?

      I think most community people regardless of OS just wanna be helpful and enthusiastic. (I like the word “enthusiast” haha) You’ll always find elitists around topics that involve learning skills and mastery.

      I dunno, I’m just happy sometimes people care here when I enthusiastically ramble to them about all their Linux-y choices they can solve problems with lol. We’re not all like that.

      Jerks just stick out more. Don’t let them tint your opinion of an entire community. I managed to even enjoy ranked League of Legends for a short while because I didn’t assume everyone was out to attack my ego with theirs.

      Hope you have an awesome one and let us know if we can help you with anything. :)

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    Wow, I’m having this issue right now. Forgot my current laptop at home, so I took out the old laptop which hasn’t seen an update in months.

    Now it has randomly crashed, as one does (reason why I asked for a replacement) and I’m here waiting for windows to install all the updates…

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      There are many OS-related diseases. Many Linux users are affected by or at least know someone who suffers from the compulsive need to mention that they’re using Arch. Then there’s compiler flag addiction, which can develop in Gentoo users. iDependency, the pathological need to purchase any product Apple releases, has financially ruined many macOS users. Windows users’ feelings towards Windows Update and the associated increase in heart rate are known to substantially increase the risk of a fatal heart attack.

      Knowing how to operate TempleOS is considered a mental disorder under the DSM-5.