spicehoarder

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If his drive is failing, and has bad sectors, windows will automatically repair damaged system files on boot. Also sounds like he's having an issue with hibernation with the window server not starting back up after suspension.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Okay, assuming you’re being honest, it sounds like a hardware issue. Either your RAM is corrupting, or your hard drive is prone to errors. The good news is that you have options to daily drive Linux without ending up in a situation where you have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Like I mentioned earlier, you absolutely need to be making snapshots. I'm currently running Manjiro, and I've completely borked my system like 10 times already. But when I set up my system, I made sure my main partition was BTRFS, which has allowed me to roll back easily through both the UI and in grub rescue mode.

I would also recommend that if you are going to continue to dual boot windows, make sure they're on two separate physical drives. And don't share stuff like your steam library, because windows likes to screw shit up, and steam will throw a fit if you make it read an NTFS drive on Linux.

Just don't give up, keep posting questions, and maybe even come back and post stuff like specific crash reports and system info so we can help you better. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

It’s 2025, if you’ve got the space to dual boot, you’ve got space for snapshots. There’s no reason not to set them up. Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, pick your poison. Disk is cheap, your time isn't.

And if “simple stuff” is breaking your system, that tells me three things:

  1. You’re still using apt-get instead of apt

  2. You’re ignoring dependency warnings

  3. You’re probably not fully understanding the commands you’re running — so RTFM

So yeah, I will be telling you to use Mint, with at LEAST daily snapshots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Where's the money, Bukowski?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That blows away in the wind?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This dude is literally Palpatine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

How did you get to that conclusion? Nothing of what I said was supporting their decisions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If I ever meet the person who made that decision at UPS, I'll let them know they're wrong.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They want you to sign up for their payed premium preferred delivery options, which includes sending it straight to their depot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have four pieces of advice

  1. btrfs file system for easy backup and recovery
  2. Encrypt your drive
  3. use an ad blocker everywhere
  4. use virus total to scan anything you might be wary of, and if you really feel like you need an AV, they do exist for Linux.

I usually prefer Debian based systems, but when I finally ditched windows 3 weeks ago, I switched to Manjaro, and I'm loving it. You got this!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Their complacency makes me feel like they're just making people feel like they have a choice

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