Well I updated my computer and my audio stopped working; to the logs! Lol I love Linux, but find myself asking “what now?” much more frequently with it…

With windows it is more like “wtf is this new ad on my start menu?” Or “how can I opt out of all these features no one ever asked for?”

btrfs subvolume snapshot / /snapshots/backup1 lol

Won’t save you from a bricked bootloader tho haha

Laughing in NixOS…

Can’t search for converts in a circle jerk.

Or disabling the stupid power settings that mean a shutdown isn’t a shutdown, and turning your computer off when not in use

I mean, I use Linux but I’ve used a lot of Windows in the past. I don’t find either of them particularly more stable than the other. I had blue screens a few years ago on my laptop and that turned out to be faulty RAM. I haven’t had a Windows-caused BSOD in years. And all this talk of Windows suddenly starting an update while I’m using it, I’ve literally never had that happen.

It’s windows. You’ll not have a choice in restarting at least once every couple of days.

But it, like, turns itself off when I’m not using it. Why do I need to restart it?

🤦‍♂️

Or weekly, just to be safe

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

Hum… Hardware does still fail at random.

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

I’ve seen one recently, when I kicked my computer by an accident.

youre fake, i used windows daily for the last year and I got one at least once a month. Maybe I was using it wrong though, idk.

If you browse linux communities long enough, you eventually start seeing openbsd users who condescendingly speak about linux the same way some linux users speak about windows lol. It’s turtles all the way down!

“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. :)

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

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

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.

Blue screens were much more common back in the day, I guess nowadays they’re equally stable. Windows current issues are the deliberate choices Microsoft makes

I currently have a memory or CPU issues (I have not investigated), which causes my windows install to lag out for a second, but my Linux install just completely crashes the entire system

I have crashed Linux before. On a Raspberry Pi. I was fucking around with some electronics on a breadboard, hooking them up to the GPIO pins while the thing is running like a dunce, and a male jumper wire connected to Vcc got away from me and dragged across the circuit board near the SoC.

It came back up after I power cycled the board. I’ve otherwise never actually crashed Linux. I’ve crashed software running on Linux, sure, but I’ve never seen a kernel panic in 10 years of penguin flavored computing.

For a while, Linux Mint was significantly less stable than Windows 10 on my previous laptop. Worse, sometimes the system crash would freeze *everything, where it wouldn’t even let me do the CTRL ALT F1 to get a basic shell, so the only solution was a full power off/on

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.

Stop spamming Linux. Its annoying

I think the whole thing might be a joke? 😀

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.