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> 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…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usually my go-to for "Linux problems" is "tear down the VM and start a new one", but a few days ago my Manjaro rig at home lost power, and bluetooth wouldn't work upon restart. I wracked my brain, pored through forum threads, man pages, and LFS, but nothing really helped. It looked like several different problems at once, but none of the individual fixes worked, or only worked for minutes at a time. I stepped away fr…
>I'm not sure what I learned. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
I had a similar problem as the article with a standard USB 3 enclosure. Two PCs, identical OS (oS Tumbleweed), same kernel version even. modprobe -r then modprobe usbstorage and it worked. An obscure error in the logs pointed to the uas module which for some reason failed to reload, enabling the enclosure to work.
Oddly, the other PC on which it worked was loading uas.
> 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…
Linux is like driving a car with your hands in the engine
Someone should tell the author about the great lshw, it lists full details of the system board (and everything else) without having to go to a GUI display. azalp 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=de…
> 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…
Linux is like driving a car with your hands in the engine
Someone should tell the author about the great lshw, it lists full details of the system board (and everything else) without having to go to a GUI display. azalp 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=de…
# dmidecode 3.4
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 02##K5
Version: A01
Serial Number: /BGK####/CN#######/
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: Not Specified
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0This is prototypical of the standard Linux experience, but I'd like to remark on just how much less common this sort of thing is. Modern Linux and modern Linux distributions have a much larger "just work" factor and it's getting better every year in my experience. Slowly and asymptotically, but it is improvement. This was driven home recently by my experience switching to NixOS. NixOS is brilliant in many ways, but b…