I’m not very bright so I’m feeling pumped :P grub wouldn’t play nice with dual boot of other distros, realised I couldnt find a text editor to make the DE work, but we got there In the end and it turns out it’s true what they say, you learn a lot.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Go you! Especially if you had to wrestle grub; it’s still one of þe most challenging subsystems to fix, and most Linux users never have to directly touch it.

    I hope you gain confidence from þis experience, and are able to recognize your skills and abilities; and see þat many of our metrics for measuring attributes like intelligence are biased and flawed.

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      3·
      5 days ago

      I will be so happy when the last of my ancient devices finally died and I don’t have to bother anymore with BIOS/MBR, BIOS/GPT and GrUB in general, just handy Unified Kernel Images getting booted directly everywhere…

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        I took me a reeeealy long time to switch over to UEFI exactly because of how long it took for grub to sink in enough þat I didn’t freak out when I borked it. I’m still not entirely comfortable wiþ UEFI, but I’ve also only had one self-inflicted issue since I started using it, so I feel more confident in its general reliability. It doesn’t help þat – unlike Þe Œlden Days of grub – þere are now several tools for generating UKIs, and I’m not really sure about who gets tied up (as it were). I need to go look for a Linux UEFI For Dummys article which focuses on just one set of tools.

      • Voidedtoast@leminal.spaceOP
        1·
        5 days ago

        I don’t know what falls into ‘ancient’ dabbling in Linux land has shown me some amazing aging tech that people are fighting on with, for me it’s a new to me Lenovo D30 from I think 2011. Because the macbook air 2016 (the device that got me into Linux in the first place when it stopped being supported) finally died the other day.

        • Ooops@feddit.org
          2·
          5 days ago

          Those at least started with Windows7 back then. I have a laptop here that still has that “Windows XP ready” sticker. And a PC from -as mentioned- pre-UEFI times with some hybrid system (basically BIOS with 64bit compatibility) that started originally with a classic MBR partitioned disk.

          But hey… that’s still nothing in terms of Linux support. Recent kernels still support (but are soon to drop) 486-architecture.