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  • Nougat
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    146 months ago

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    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      46 months ago

      I’ve had a black screen of death on Mint. All I was trying to do was crop a video on kdenlive. It black screened on me and somehow even messed up the boot menu so that my Mint was showing up as just Ubuntu. I went straight back to Shotcut after that. I really wanted to switch from Windows to Linux, but so far, Linux, or at least Mint, really hates me. Up till recently, I was still using Mint for my music storage, but it has trouble even moving files onto my phone now. I’ve pretty much given up.

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        if want to diagnose black screen, can use sudo journalctl -S "TIME" to see journal since TIME (“X min ago”, timestamp, etc.). may have message on error.

        can try syncthing to move file to/from phone

  • @[email protected]
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    326 months ago

    Linux machines don’t crash unexpectedly, because if they do, it’s your fault for configuring it wrong and you should have expected it.

    • dch82
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      206 months ago

      Windows machines don’t crash unexpectedly because it’s Microsoft and you should have expected it.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Or you just decided to update all your packages like a madman whilst not running on a Debian based distro

      • Ephera
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        26 months ago

        Bruh, if a package update breaks something, I just roll back the BTRFS snapshot.

  • @[email protected]
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    136 months ago

    Since when did the Blue Screen concept change from being an actual error screen to simply the Windows update screen?

    I’m guessing shortly after Windows began implementing aforementioned update screen?

    This is the first I’ve heard it referred to as the Blue Screen.

    For reference: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

  • @[email protected]
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    256 months ago

    Windows user here. I don’t have a fear of BSODs.

    On the other hand, I have “Linux users are elitist jerks” syndrome, which stops me from switching to Linux, due to a fear of Linux users might be elitist jerks. This can be only cured by massive improvements to the Linux community, and a debugger that has an actual GUI for Linux (no, I don’t care about whatever cute little script you’ve written for GDB for a semi-automated testsuite for command line utility that converts one obscure format into another).

    • @[email protected]
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      “Linux users are elitist jerks”

      Elitist jerks are elitist jerks. Ever talked to a stuck-up Windows I.T admin? The constant scoffing is unreal.

      What about people rich (or financially goofy) enough to obsess with Apple products?

      I think most community people regardless of OS just wanna be helpful and enthusiastic. (I like the word “enthusiast” haha) You’ll always find elitists around topics that involve learning skills and mastery.

      I dunno, I’m just happy sometimes people care here when I enthusiastically ramble to them about all their Linux-y choices they can solve problems with lol. We’re not all like that.

      Jerks just stick out more. Don’t let them tint your opinion of an entire community. I managed to even enjoy ranked League of Legends for a short while because I didn’t assume everyone was out to attack my ego with theirs.

      Hope you have an awesome one and let us know if we can help you with anything. :)

  • @[email protected]
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    146 months ago

    I’m a Linux user, and I have “X11 decides to lock up the entire system irrecoverably for no reason” syndrome. Should probably look into wayland…

    • Captain Aggravated
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      26 months ago

      X does fall over sometimes. Since I’ve been on Fedora KDE running Wayland, I’ve had a couple “you’re now in recovery mode” moments as well.

  • Kaity
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    126 months ago

    Unfortunately as a linux user you may get stuck-on-post syndrome but there are widely available immunizations and treatments available.

  • @[email protected]
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    56 months ago

    I used to dual-boot and use my Win10 for gaming.

    But in the middle of Vermintide 2 I kept getting BAD BSoDs seemingly at random! None of the typical steps seemed to help. Probably something NVIDIA related I dunno.

    I was gonna “refresh this system” and all Windows told me after “We’re getting this ready.” was: “Can’t. Dunno why. Sorry.”

    But hey, switching over to my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install made the game play really smooth, and no crashes! And soon, I discovered it ran all my other games just fine or even better as well!

    I haven’t touched that Win10 install in ages, and will probably drop it in favor of VMing it really soon.

    The only real holdout is that my VR headset is WMR. That really sucks. :(

  • @[email protected]
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    36 months ago

    I’d literally rather risk losing everything to a blue screen than use something arcane, deliberately difficult to use, unnecessarily complicated and bereft of any interesting or useful programs.

    Linux is great for niche scenarios, like software development, but horrible for most daily use and any critic who pretends otherwise is ignorant or lying.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      Windows is making it more a’d more annoying to keep using it and Linux is becoming more and more user friendly

  • @[email protected]
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    266 months ago

    I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

    There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

    I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

    • @[email protected]
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      96 months ago

      shutdown.exe -a should take care of situations like that. It’s not an excuse for taking away your options on the UI though.

      • @[email protected]
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        56 months ago

        Does that require admin access? It wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months ago

          By default a normal user can abort the shutdown. They could also configure group policy to prevent shutdown permissions which also prevents aborting a shutdown.

          The GPO is Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Shut down the system.

      • @[email protected]
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        What about all those update skippers that start complaining to Microsoft when their system breaks because they don’t understand that updates are crucial for a good running system?

        I get why Microsoft forces it now on the Home editions.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      I don’t want to be that guy, because I still hate Windows, but… most people who have these problems just didn’t set up updates properly. Well, that, or they never restart their computer.

    • @[email protected]
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      66 months ago

      Greyed out options like that almost always mean the person has been hitting cancel or delay for several warnings already.

  • @[email protected]
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    46 months ago

    This is what got me to switch to Linux (arch btw). I was getting blue/green screens 1-2x a week and it almost always ruined a gaming experience.

    Now I can bork my system during an update, but at least I can game smoothly. My system hasn’t crashed once while in the middle of something (I have, however, fucked up my system post update and without a Time shift backup ready to go which merited a full reinstall - but it’s been a good learning experience overall)