"Why doesn't this just work I never had this problem on Windows!!" leaves no necessary information to troubleshoot
Vs.
"I have this specific and obscure workflow I use with this one package nobody has heard of, I perform XYZ action and after I ran pacman -Syu I'm seeing that the application is segfaulting and leading to this call trace..."
Five page dump of dmesg
"I mapped this to line 748 of the Linux-Zen kernel source file can somebody help explain how I can work around this?"
No responses for eternity, thread archived
132The answer is on a 5+ year old YouTube video in a different language than you need half the time that is presented by a 10 yr. old.
3010 yr olds are really talented these days.
19Most probably in Hindi too
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There's a third kind that uses some weird magic to be both at the same time.
68Please add back spacebar heating bug.
100this you?
102Feature*
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Seriously though. Seen people install Mint, and run non-Linux games through steam with no issues. I had to troubleshoot for about 8 hours so kind of make them run.
43Hardware is a big factor in this. Mint in particular is a stable distro based on the ubuntu LTS so it's slow to get new kernels and you need a ppa to get a fresher mesa install and this is essential for newer amd hardware. Conversely if you're on a rolling bleeding edge distro and you rely on nvidia and their closed drivers then you're often one update away from breaking them.
29Mint is considered the new standard for "it just works", but I had nothing but problems on my desktop with mint.
3I personally had to give up on mint after like a week. Couldn't for the life of me get multiple displays working.
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Works for me. You must just suck
32experience helps. after some time, you will suckless :)
14Or you might get swayed
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Me, installimg a few Flatpak apps, having them work for a while then suddenly break for no apparent reason, spend an enture day trying to fix them, only for an update acouple days later to fix it.
29me, wondering why my VHDs in 86box kept disappearing until I realised I needed to set the permissions in my distro's Flatpak settings:
5Me when my sound randomly goes poof and starts acting on the fritz
Terminal please run my pulse killer file. Fixed.
Then sometimes my chat/game mixer just breaks. And one only works, then on a random day it is just mysteriously works again without doing anything.
Then my windows laptop is like: File Explorer crashes fairly regularly. Word died sometimes. The battery percentage is now just a percentage with no number!
Now my WiFi toggle states it's offline... Opens networks, ah lovely it says connected. Same with Bluetooth.
Much rather just have the more reliable Linux.
3Lol, that used to happen to me a lot when I used Windows. I resized my Linux partition and rarely return, I only have the basics installed because of some uni projects that might require Windows software and it still manages to bug while updating or opening Teams
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There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary.
Those that do And those that don't
22The two hardest problems in programming are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.
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Don't worry guys I fixed it
21This was fixed ages ago, but you are using Debian because it is "stable" and thus software from ages ago and don't have the fix.
15There are several dozen Debian Unstable users out there. They seem to be mostly bearded.
8The best part is when I check to see what exact version of the package I really have and despite it being old, it's the version a month after the one where the bug was fixed but I'm still getting the bug so I guess I'll go fuck myself then.
5
The duality of Linux…
12Schrödinger’s nerd
8Works on my machine.
5They're the same person.
4ProtonDB comments... at the very least say if you're using an nvidia or AMD card ffs
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