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Re: A Linux Evening

#31

Post by mkl95 »

I have had my share of Linux Evenings. They built my confidence when it comes to troubleshooting system stuff, and they eroded my confidence in Linux for a while. Things are incredibly stable these days compared to even half a decade ago.

Re: A Linux Evening

#32

Post by postit »

That’s where Linux burned all the bridges on being my main machine.

Nowadays, I cannot afford to take a day off to fix obscure incompatibilities like this.

The last straw to me was when I stored my closed lid xps in a bag and 3 hours later everything was smelling like burning plastic because the computer suspend suddenly stoped working. To get things worst, it happened during a long haul flight.

Re: A Linux Evening

#33

Post by nicoco »

> I spent several hours fixing a problem and I learned next to nothing in the process.

This is probably true for this specific case here, but my experience with fixing stuff in Linux is actually the opposite. I learnt a lot doing so, and learnt stuff that turned out to be later useful in very unexpected spots.

Back when I was a teen and using Windows, I've spent countless hours fiddling in stuff in regedit and other atrocities and it feels like I never learnt anything useful in the long run.

Re: A Linux Evening

#34

Post by robin_reala »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #28
noisy_boy wrote: post #10

Couldn'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 hav…

> and there aren't any dual sim models of iPhone. Aren't phones with an eSIM + regular SIM effectively dual-SIM? I'm pretty sure iphones have those.

There’re also real dual-SIM iPhones, but they’re market restricted (typically to China).

Docs for SIM + eSIM: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph9c5776d3c/io...

Docs for dual physical SIM: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209086

Re: A Linux Evening

#35

Post by johnchristopher »

I almost prepped myself up this Friday evening for a solo Debian reinstall party to solve an extremely slow reading/writing on internal hdd/sdd problem until I accidentally realized the problem disappeared once I had removed my external disk from the docking station. Went from 2mb/s to 2gb/s r. and 800mb/s w.

> I spent several hours fixing a problem and I learned next to nothing in the process. This trick is unlikely to be useful again. By the time I encounter something similar, it is likely I will have forgotten about the solution.

So much this.

Re: A Linux Evening

#36

Post by quijoteuniv »

_8j50 wrote: post #27
quijoteuniv wrote: post #9

Yes, 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.

A lot of my problems are from tinkering as well but that's why I am using linux, to control it better and tinker with it. Why won't I just use macos if I wanted something I can't tinker with? I think people lose sight if why Linux even exists to begin with, it is all about user control and ability to tinker/hack it. I think better UX and more configurability would solve this stuff (from a friendly interface). The rea…

Yes, a lot of times when i have «Linux problems» is because i am installing it in hardware that was not made for it. For example, old Macs, but usually after an evening i get decent results. Have few old macs with Lunux that work nicely. :)

Re: A Linux Evening

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Post by JW_00000 »

postit wrote: post #32

That’s where Linux burned all the bridges on being my main machine. Nowadays, I cannot afford to take a day off to fix obscure incompatibilities like this. The last straw to me was when I stored my closed lid xps in a bag and 3 hours later everything was smelling like burning plastic because the computer suspend suddenly stoped working. To get things worst, it happened during a long haul flight.

Suspend on my MacBook Pro also didn't work for >1 year, but seems to be magically fixed now. All OSes have annoying bugs in my experience.

Re: A Linux Evening

#39

Post by muststopmyths »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #28
noisy_boy wrote: post #10

Couldn'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 hav…

> and there aren't any dual sim models of iPhone. Aren't phones with an eSIM + regular SIM effectively dual-SIM? I'm pretty sure iphones have those.

Yep, my SE2020 is like that, and was sold in the US
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