• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    Keep it polite, folks. No personal attacks against others, especially speculations regarding mental or emotional capabilities.

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    Lol don’t give them any attention. It’s the same 3 people who didn’t get loved enough during their formative years and cannot distinguish between good attention and bad attention

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    linux is terrible because removing the entire root folder can brick your system it should be more like windows where removing system32 can brick your system

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      I’m a bit bias right now because I tried to install PopOS on a partition last night to see if i could play with it and make a media server. My VPN client failed to install properly, corrupted the OS and when I booted back to the live disk (Rufus made USB) I was able to format the partition but no longer install to it. The boot loader no longer works and it can’t get into any OS now.

      I have to say I haven’t had this problem before, but working in IT and installing Windows on over 10 thousand computers in my career, this has happened to none.

      (I’ll try another installer likely and format the partition over and see if another bootloader like grub will take and fix the issue).

      Edit: changed course and said fuck it… formatted the entire drive and so much for the other data that was there. Clean install maybe the VPN client won’t botch everything this time.

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      The mention of UEFI in this context likely means they are thinking of a deletion recursing through sysfs and by extension deleting all visible UEFI variables which, in some firmware editions and versions, causes it not to be able to get through post or into the setup menu.

      I vaguely recall this and the general issue was very bad firmware design, but it was possible to make it impossible to even reinstall a system. If you were industrious in windows you could have done the same thing, so malware under windows could also brick such platforms.

      Of course rm has more safeguards on it so you have to pass more flags and really really be asking it to try to screw things up.

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    I’m gonna be real with you, one of the first things I’ve done when I joined lemmy, was to block most of the linux-centered communities.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the same as blocking fucking metric tons of brainrot that you have to do on other platforms, but at the end of the day - constant spam of geeky stuff is still a clutter if you’re not interested in the topic.

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    Some of those posts are decent jokes to be honest. Some are just desperate/scare tactics though.

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        I’m not sure. Some posts legitimately seem like Linux users making fun of themselves. Others really seem like people who have an actual grudge against it.

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        They’re very serious. Or a very dedicated troll. Or both.

        I got banned from that community when I said that I had no trouble playing any Steam or Heroic Launcher games. I also said I don’t play any AAA slop and especially any rootkit shit.

        If it was satire, they wouldn’t have taken offense at that.

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        Ehh, it’s not like Linux is perfect. And if we want more Linux adoption it’s good to have different perspectives and be made aware of things that perhaps we haven’t thought of. It could be useful to vent about Linux through memes if we can have proper discourse and are willing to work collaboratively to solve issues.

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          Why do we want more Linux adoption? I think that’s part of the problem. There is no reason to try to oversell Linux. If someone doesn’t want to use Linux and they don’t ask to about it you shouldn’t just randomly show up and say to use Linux.

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        If you satirically make a community about the Earth being a triangle, users who actually believe it will pop up eventually.

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        The owner once said they were not a meme community in a post. Empirical evidence disagrees.

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    Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they’re entitled to do whatever they like in their community… within instance rules… Or is this some intervention by someone else?

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    I honestly think the whole Linux community should be reading that sub rather than acting like Linux is perfect. Right now desktop Linux is for very tech savvy people who are willing to put in the time to learn and fix, and it’s for their grandmas who only need a web browser and maybe a word processor. Anyone who thinks differently needs to get their head out of the sand. I use Fedora.

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      I thought the same at first, then I started to think the main person was just trolling, now I’m pretty sure they’re actually serious

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      Well, Lunduke is making hour long nuanced content just with baity titles. And he doesn’t spend a portion of his days on banning people and sending snarky comments. This is mostly shitposting, ragebait and wrong factual claims…

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    Microwaving any of your computer parts can brick them.

    I accidentally ran rm -rf / on my work MacBook once. Proper backups and patience with yourself are far better solutions than recommending to let Microsoft infect your computer.

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    I just realized that I’ve already blocked both of the mods at some point in the past. The community looks really dead without their posts.

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      I looked at some posts of them. They posted a meme about how Linux users don’t shut the fuck up about Linux, while running this community… Lol.

      As a Linux user, we might be a little too passionate.

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        It’s easy to be passionate when you aren’t killing your soul with Windows.

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        we might be a little too passionate

        We have to offset the complacency and downright apathy of Windows users, and the tribal/cult mentality of Apple consumers.

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    Quick glance AFat that place and wow. Talk about people completely and utterly missing the point

    Yeah, I know I can be annoying when I tell people for the 100th time that they should install Linux, but I wouldn’t have to say that if they didn’t get their computer hacked / full of viruses / full with Microsoft bloat and spyware they want removed and come to me to fix that shit on each of those occasions.

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      Its all one person. Literally 98% of the posts are one butthurt dude, who then goes on to complain that linux users are annoying because they make it their whole personality.

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        It just gets sad when you remember the dude running it isn’t doing this for satire. They generally think it sucks.

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          I thought it was satire at first and thought, how long before they start going after stereotypes? Then I saw it was just that one person and thought damn someone misconfigured their backups and lost their job.

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    rm -rf / can brick your system

    Well good thing there’s basically no legitimate reason to ever even use rm -rf / anyway so GNU version is perfectly within its rights to refuse to do that by default, am I right? If you know what you’re doing and want to nuke partitions, that’s what cfdisk and mkfs are for, dammit