A Linux Evening
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A Linux Evening
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#2I didn't knew PCIe hotplug works at all!
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#3I hate linux for this. How the hell a modern OS can be frozen completely shut by some runaway python script running in a VS code debugger, to a point that you have to kill your PC with a button. And then non-obvious issues that just "appear" out of nowhere and steal your perfectly fine evening where you have planned to work on your favorite side project.
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#4Been there... Especially when I was in high school with older Ubuntu flavors and trying to dual boot Windows. Booting constantly got fucked up.
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#5I hate linux for this. How the hell a modern OS can be frozen completely shut by some runaway python script running in a VS code debugger, to a point that you have to kill your PC with a button. And then non-obvious issues that just "appear" out of nowhere and steal your perfectly fine evening where you have planned to work on your favorite side project.
How is your comment related to the article? The only connection I can see is bad quality of some hardware and drivers.
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#6I hate linux for this. How the hell a modern OS can be frozen completely shut by some runaway python script running in a VS code debugger, to a point that you have to kill your PC with a button. And then non-obvious issues that just "appear" out of nowhere and steal your perfectly fine evening where you have planned to work on your favorite side project.
This seems like a random, unrelated yet incredibly specific rant, and not really a unique property of Linux.
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#7I hate linux for this. How the hell a modern OS can be frozen completely shut by some runaway python script running in a VS code debugger, to a point that you have to kill your PC with a button. And then non-obvious issues that just "appear" out of nowhere and steal your perfectly fine evening where you have planned to work on your favorite side project.
How is your comment related to the article? The only connection I can see is bad quality of some hardware and drivers.
It’s a reappearing issue with Linux that you run into problems other operating systems don’t have to this degree. Which is sad, because seeing the direction Windows 11 is heading towards, I’d like for Linux to achieve widespread adoption.
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#8I hate linux for this. How the hell a modern OS can be frozen completely shut by some runaway python script running in a VS code debugger, to a point that you have to kill your PC with a button. And then non-obvious issues that just "appear" out of nowhere and steal your perfectly fine evening where you have planned to work on your favorite side project.
> How the hell a modern OS can be frozen completely shut by some runaway python script running in a VS code
That isn't a just Linux thing. You can easily fork-bomb (or equivalent) Windows/iOS/other and so forth, especially (though not only) if running as a privileged user.
> And then non-obvious issues that just "appear" out of nowhere
That is definitely not something that I've never seen when using Windows! Where it has happened to me under Linux it has been eventually traced to a hardware issue or a bad update (the latter I've experienced on both those OSs over the years and the former will affect everything).
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#9Yes, sometimes you land in these situations in Linux, but many times are self inflicted by unnecesary tinkering.
I cannot see why dealing with all the … unwanted things from windows can ever be better. With mac if it is too new it will not be supported and after a few years you need to upgrade your hardware or are left to die. Apart from being an exclusive system for the rich.
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#10Couldn't agree more with the takeaways. Especially #3 - and it is exacerbated if you are a finicky person who wants everything exactly the way you want it + loves to customize and tinker. Linux basically keeps me hooked by virtue of catering to those needs even though I have to deal with these Linux evenings (which are thankfully getting rarer over time). In time too because my tolerance is depleting as I age and have decreasing bandwidth to deal with all that. Also the reason I always dual boot with Windows.
I also have a somewhat interesting usecase that doesn't let me switch to Mac (not that I am keen to). If I buy a Mac, I will have to switch my phone to iPhone too because integration with Android isn't nearly as good. However I _must_ have a dual sim phone (which is fairly easy with Android) and there aren't any dual sim models of iPhone.