• HouseWolf@lemm.ee
    776·
    9 months ago

    Honestly my Windows 10 experience wasn’t much different.

    Atleast I can actually fix most of the issues that pop up on Linux

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
      20·
      9 months ago

      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.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
            4·
            9 months ago

            Got it. My wife is about ready to jump ship after seeing me running linux on my daily for half a year with heavy tasks.

            She‘s jealous of the customization and versatility of linux.

            • 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
              21·
              9 months ago

              Mine stopped asking me whether I’m hacking or not after I showed her a few images from her phone on my laptop. She doesn’t know I copied those when she gave me her phone once.

              I think she’s kinda afraid of me now…

      • Doubi@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        One time, when I tried to install the Windows installation tool on a stick, an error said something like (German) “Aus irgendeinem Grund konnte die Installation nicht abgeschlossen werden”. “Aus irgendeinem Grund” literally translates to “for some reason”.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.de
      6·
      9 months ago

      Last time I tried Windows (with Windows 10), I actually struggled properly installing my graphics drivers. IDK what the issue even was, but after trying unsuccessfully for a while I just wiped the Windows partition and stuck with Linux.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, with Windows I just pray it won’t break, cause if it does I might as well reinstall. And of course installing Windows, installing drivers and updating the system takes hours. How they made it that slow is beyond me.

  • bean@lemmy.world
    511·
    9 months ago

    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… 🤦‍♂️

    • blazeknave@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      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! "

      • nebula42@lemmy.today
        4·
        9 months ago

        I use arch and as long as you don’t have a buttfuck of unnecessary daemons and aur packages (which can be said for any distro imo), it’s as simple as sudo pacman -Syu

        • Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          9 months ago

          Until you’re one of the unlucky ones whose PC gets bricked by an update. Happened to me twice. I agree, it’s wayyyy more chill than people give it credit for, but let’s not pretend using it as a daily driver doesn’t come with its risks ^^

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      9·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
      4·
      9 months ago

      I remember installing Uhuntu back in 2012 as middle schooler, and never encountering any error at all.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
      6·
      9 months ago

      On that note, maybe just remove windows? Thats what I did. Some folks report that „really necessary apps“ would also run on a vm.

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        I still need that Windows partition for two reasons:

        (1). I need Windows because my audio interface uses a proprietary driver only available on Windows. It simply does not perform as quickly on Linux. It’s for real-time audio recording and production, so I need absolutely every clock cycle I can possibly spare. For that reason, a VM is out of the question for this particular application. On Linux with JACK, it uses JACK’s default USB audio driver, which is really good but not as fast as the custom driver ostensibly using FocusRite’s hidden features. It’s not Linux’s fault, it’s FocusRite’s for not supporting Linux and mine for “backing the wrong horse” about ten years ago when I bought it. To my knowledge, Linux pro audio was simply nowhere near as developed as it is now. It is only this exact piece of hardware, which I currently cannot afford to replace, that requires me to keep any copies of Windows alive. Other than for similar reasons where users are trapped, Windows sucks as an audio production operating system, whereas Linux with JACK is great.

        (2). I need the Windows partition as it is because there is some old but important work there that I need to finish. I wasn’t very organized about where I saved my work, i.e. things are all over the place. Eventually, I have to spend several hours moving the project files and effects off the drive. Since these projects were recorded on Windows, I will probably have to move all my Windows-exclusive effects to Linux. Yabridge actually does an excellent job for this, but it’s not painless.

        I’m currently in grad school for engineering, so I won’t have time to bring over my project files until at least the summer. But even then, all the compatibility layers are starting to add up on Linux. The projects I want to work on were nearly maxing out the CPU and RAM on Windows. Really, I need a hardware upgrade, but I can’t afford that for a long time.

        • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
          5·
          9 months ago

          Well that is understandable and highly unfortunate. I hope you‘ll find a solution for the driver at some point. There are awesome people that can reverse engineer stuff but its still a lot of work.

    • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Same here. I came from Arch-based (which was already reasonably stable), and Debian is just flat out unbreakable in my experience.

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
    211·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Jallu@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • _I_@lemmy.world
    16·
    9 months ago

    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).

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • Nester@feddit.uk
      3·
      9 months ago

      Same here. I switched to Fedora last year and it’s been so easy…too easy 🤔

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
      6·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        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.

  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 months ago

    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.