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> 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.
This is why it is important to keep a personal knowledge base/documentation. Mine is full of things I'll probably never encounter again, but I know it may be useful one day or another.
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description: Desktop Computer
product: B660M AORUS PRO AX DDR4 (Default string)
vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version: -CF
serial: Default string
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-3.4.0 dmi-3.4.0 smp vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=B660 MB sku=Default string uuid=dotdotdot
Side note: I've been working on creating a new blog now that I've completed my name change (and whatever other aspects of my transition affect my public persona). This blog's minimalism is still distinctively styled and I'd like to do something visually similar. The choice to make it black-on-light-gray is somewhat pleasing. Has a consensus been reached on dark styling affecting readability?
I 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.
The solution is running a userspace out-of-memory killer, e.g. earlyoom.
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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.
My story, I bought a new widget, a gaming wheel a few years back, and it did not work on my Windows machine, I even reinstalled Windows, installed the drivers from disk it did not work. I send the thing back and report it broken and the guys call me to report that works perfectly. In the end I bought a different model that worked both on Windows and Linux.
So a gadget with official Windows support did not work on my machine, even after I wasted my time reinstalling Windows just in case but worked fine for some support people.
I had a diffrent experience with a USB WifFi antenna , it come with a mini CD with drivers but my PC had no CD Drive, there was no online source for that no name brnd.
I plugged it on a Linux machine and it worked, then I done a lsusb and found the real chip powering the device, then Googled for that I found a compatible Windows driver on a drivers website and I fixed it for Windows machine.
Linux has problems, but install a LTS distro on compatible hardware and you should not have issues for a few years.
To balance things, my latest bad experience in KDE was when Kwin crashed and refused to enable compositing again printing a vague reason in the logs, I found using Google that KWin put an isOPenGLSafe=false in soem log file and refused to start compositing but for some reason (maybe is a valid one) was incapable to print also that "I refuse to start compositing because of this setting - lesson for us devs, when we put stuff in log messages, put as much info as possible
I had a similar experience recently. Updated my Manjaro setup, rebooted, and was greeted with text mode. X just didn't load. 1 hour of reading logfiles and pondering about why the kernel module wouldn't load, it turns out I needed to add an obscure boot parameter (I think it was something like "ibp=off") to my kernel command line to make the nvidia module load again. Easy solution if you know how to solve it, 1 hour…
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.
I think better UX and more configurability would solve this stuff (from a friendly interface). The reason desktop/distro people won't do that is because it is considered bad UX practice to have too many decisions for the user. But imo, a Linux user would be an exception. In an ideal world, whoever decided to disable the boot flag in this case should have provided an easy to access distro/de setting to flip it back on.
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…
Aren't phones with an eSIM + regular SIM effectively dual-SIM? I'm pretty sure iphones have those.
But I think it's OK. I have always had an interest in system programming and that's why I wanted to dab into Linux. But system programming is not a shiny, whole smooth thing one may imagine, but is quite messy all the time. I simply got what I wanted.