Years ago, coming from Windows 7, I decided Linux Mint was simple enough to dip my toes into Linux. Some jackass had posted a guide to manually install a cool looking desktop environment and I fell for it faster than an idiot born yesterday.
Sure, the DE worked and looked cool for a day or two. But it was massively borked after the first security update. Looking back, I wouldn’t do anything different. I am grateful for that tough first lesson. After spending the subsequent days reading about the different distros, I picked one that was notoriously un-shiny and I read the documentation. Whenever I think about adding shiny, unsupported thingies, I think about how fast foolish decisions can tank the OS.
Ya I just went through this myself, long story short, never sync your home dir to nextcloud via the desktop client. Do the sub folders one at a time.
That’s most likely Nextcloud desktop’s fault though. One time I was syncing my games folder and it had an error downloading some files and when I clicked retry sync it apparently decided that I had deleted the games folder so it just immediately removed the entire thing from my Nextcloud server. Didn’t even send it to trash despite me having the option to put deleted files in trash enabled.
ok one more joke…
Linux Video Driver after an update repair starter kit
Oh look the fstab command I didn’t fully understand has written all the NTFS indexes over the partition tables on all my hard drives… Whelp time to learn data recovery.
Btw just a PSA: You don’t need to manually edit
fstabwhen there is Gnome Disks (gnome-disk-utility).I feel like fucking up fstab is a rite of passage
True freedom means responsibility. You should have the right to destroy yourself and your OS
When something broken in windows, you can usually find a working tutorial how to fix it via GUI
In Linux however… Working tutorial…
HAHAHAHAHA
Archwiki? Linux administrators handbook? Countless other books and forums?
When something is broken on windows, you may find a Microsoft Forum post with all dead links telling you to check an option in settings that is no longer there, and then run
chkdsk.Of course, none of those are gonna work, and you’ll just have to learn to live with whatever is broken.
Linux Inc. does not spend billions of dollars ensuring you have no options but Linux.
It also doesn’t exist, so that helps too.
And take a look at the platinum members
My favourite Corporations are the ones that don’t exist
me shily walking over to my timeshift snapshots after running
sudo chmod -R 775 /
Instead of with a dot…
Plot twist: Your snapshots were mounted when you did that and are now also very accessible.
shudders
But no I use an externall HDD docked with a… Usb dock thing whatever it’s called
That’s accessible from a USB Ubuntu… Right?
Right???
Sounds to me like you haven’t tested your backups suitably if you are asking.
I did test with a usb. I’m joking
People actually thought about that… so snapshots are read-only by design
TimeShift was probably one of the most important teaching aides I had when I first started on Linux.
I’ve been on Bazzite for a couple years now, so I have no need for it anymore.
But I learned sooooo much by breaking my EndeavourOS install and then rolling back.
I’ve only had to rollback with Bazzite once so far (it’s hard to break), and it was literally just one rpm-ostree command. Love it.
NixOS
my system config is in git.
my home folder is in syncthing with a command to stop sync if a significant change is requested.
Sure is fucking hard to setup tho :)
Meanwhile i can’t setup a fucking web project so indexing doesn’t take 5 minutes 😭🤣
I accidentally made my entire home directory executable and I only backup individual projects on my laptop since it doesnt have much valuable data. that was annoying to fix
Other Linux users to you: RTFM you fucking donkey!
Hot take: user-friendly system shouldn’t require the manual to operate normally.
Hot take: oh, linux systems do operate normally. Until they get butchered by user
People in these parts will throw shade at macOS, and I get it. But whatever you think of Apple, they’ve traditionally done a pretty good job of making their OS such that you don’t really need a manual unless you start doing more complex stuff. Someone who’s not particularly computer literate can buy a cheap Mac and have it up and running in no time, without ever really needing to seek help.
cheap Mac
Where?
I mean, ‘cheap’ is subjective. The Neo seems like a decent buy right now, and as the other reply said, there’s always used. These things truck along nicely for many a year.
Some things are just inherently complex. And especially if you’re going to use CLI (not user unfriendly in any way imo), you’re gonna want to make sure you’re typing in the right stuff.
Linux has the manuals built-in, they’re called “man pages”
Let’s start learning with how to use man:
man mandeleted by creator
You’re welcome! There is also
tldrthat’s quite useful too.
Hotter take: Ease of access has ruined modern computing. The ideal desktop interface is the one they have in the Alien universe.
For desktop useage, fair enough; though, keep in mind that linux started and still is a server os primarily. DEs started out for the developers to have the ability to have some GUI on the side as well, no reason to hate themselves for no reason. I use arch for desktop useage, not server useage, and I’m aware that I’m the insane one, and linux being the even more insane one for actually working for what it’s not even designed for. DE’s are a GNU thing and all that, but still a bunch of packages made to be modular by default rather than well integrated for a specific experience. So while it is up to the developers to develop their packages, it’s the distro maintainers to make it user-friendly for desktop useage; where if something is really needed, someone will make it - if noone makes it, the suggestions of popular demand will be enough motivation for someone to make it sooner or later. I often feel bad for relying on the “someone”, which is why we donate, to show appreciation and support the things we love.
keep in mind that linux started and still is a server os primarily. DEs started out for the developers to have the ability to have some GUI on the side as well
Absolute nonsense. Unix GUIs and workstations predate Linux. The X Window System was first released in 1984, the Motif widget toolkit in 1989, and both were alternatives to existing proprietary GUIs. The workstation landscape was a Wild West before Windows prevailed.
We need to get over that for newbs. The experienced person already knows they’re a donkey.
Dishwasher breaks a plate - heck this stupid machine Now if I break a plate – oh well, stuff happens
Tbf the biggest problems i had with linux were caused by some Windows partition so the first image may as well apply to the second case sometimes.
I weirdly got a problem after blowing away my windows partition
Shutting down the computer (mint) doesn’t fully shut down anymore, so I gotta physically hold down the power button til it goes off
Internet says something with grub is probs wack, but I’m lazy so I just made a shortcut to “shutdown -f 0” and called it good
Afaik grub should not have any effect on shutting down. Grub is the bootloader, after it has loaded the kernel, it’s done.
I never had issues on windows 11, but fuck that noise.
Ive since moved CachyOS, I’ve put in 30-60 mins a week fixing or setting up things. The recent was a random “a wedged CEF cache in the Steam client”. Im happy to pay it and i learn more of a system im part of. Im in awe of all the work already done in linux.
Oh man I built my kernel and added some patches and oh boy did I fuck my install. Had to start it over, so annoying. Thankfully I had everything backed up took me an hour to get it all fixed.
Ever trigger OOM in alpine Linux in aarch64?
“Oh you broke weirdly…”
