It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program
If you reinstall enough things, enough times, it becomes a kink.
OSSexual
sigh. here we go again…
unzips archive
Extract here
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 :)
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
Open Source Sexuality
GNU/OSSexual
Ventoy ftw
Use Timeshift, use Timeshift, use Timeshift.
Ok. I’ve downloaded, tar and gunzipped the files for it.
Then did a make build and then make install. Now my system won’t start. What do I do?
What
In the off chance that this isn’t a joke, does your distro really not have timeshift binaries?It’s a joke
I have saved 3 reinstall or 1 week of troubleshooting in only 3 “fuck around and find out” incidents.
I guess I’m the only one timeshift always fails for.
saved me when I deleted the wrong partition.
Same, it’s saved my butt so many times. Once in the middle of a tech conference, I was messing around in the terminal with my networking and borked something really bad.
I spent 5 minutes trying to get my networking back but couldn’t figure out what I had screwed up and ended up breaking it more.
I just went into Timeshift and restored to the beginning of that day and in a few minutes I was back up like nothing had happened.
In the olden days, I would have spent hours to fix it, completely forget everything I’ve done over the course of those several 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.on a thread about someone having a weird issue with linux
someone shares related story involving troubleshooting for hours
“You’re really selling me on Linux. Sounds like a nightmare”
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”.
I’m a pathetic moron
“so there would be two of us then, eh?”
You learn plenty by breaking and reinstalling. I don’t considering it an invalid option for a home user. I had to reinstall MacOS7/8 and Windows 95/98 so many times as a kid. Learned a lot doing it, sysadmin now 🤷♂️
Fuck around, find out and learn.
find out and learn
But you repeat yourself
yeah, the point I was trying to make is that some people “find out” but do not learn
You learn a lot more by reading and fixing. That’s simply not possible with Windows.
Whenever we (Brother and I) broke our W95 install, it was a pretty high stakes race against the clock to get it to work as expected again, because if my dad got home from work and found out about the broken machine, there would be consequences (him being frustrated, us not allowed to play C&C red alert or Warcraft II)
Warcraft2 <3
Pffft. I just boot from a live cd so changes are gone at reboot. Why install if you’re just going to break something?
i, too, nuked my bookworm install today after fiddling with Nvidia drivers. keeping /home on its own part is such a lifehack
Button #3: Restore TimeShift snapshot.
1000% this. Just use BTRFS and avoid all the pain…
Honestly kicking myself for not having this setup on my last Linux install
Good news is it’s setup on my current install
Sometimes I learn my lessons the hard way… Multiple times.
Second approach is better as it teaches you to fix and understand the system you’re working with
Of course, this is a more complicated and energy - demanding approach, though. But if you wanna stay on Linux, you better figure such stuff out, this will be invaluable in the long run.
I should also mention that Debian, despite the Bookworm introducing more user-friendly options, is not a newbie-centered distribution and fixing things in there tend to be more tedious for an inexperienced user.
The upside, however, is that once you’ve set it up, everything will just work. But first you might face some pain.
I wish there was a way to see what the default values in a config file are for a given distro.
I’m guessing there probably is, and I just don’t know it.Maybe I should just make
/a git repo…Without knowing a better way, my go-to solution woukd just be getting an full installation image and diffing my files with the files on it
Don’t modify the config in
/etc/, copy them in~/.config/and then modify them. You’ll always be able to just look at the/etc/for defaults.Usually if its a boolean or nullable, a good config file will have a
# uncommemt this line to enable this feature/disable this feature/bind to this IP address/give this thing a namethat is at least vaugely hints what the option does. But yes, its still fairly annoying.You should check out the Fedora atomic distros if you haven’t already. Making the system work more like a git repo is what they are doing with rpm-ostree. I am liking it a lot.
with great power comes great resposibility.
use sudo wisely, or not at all.
use sudo wisely, or not at all.
You also just work as root all the time, right?
My laptop’s mic seems to have some contact issues. It never worked for a second on windows. I put Linux on it, and it usually just works. When it doesn’t, some percussive maintenance does a quick job of fixing it. I guess I was dealt the opposite hand than usual.
No, that’s how it usually goes these days.
Refresh OS feature in popos has been a game changer for me
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.
Laughs in Fedora Atomic
As a gentoo user, spending hours trying to fix it is usually the better option.
