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[–] nate3d@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just switched to Fedora Kinoite and I’m loving the immutability of the OS. Oh bad update? lol rollback and golden. Can’t do that shit with each bloatware force push from MS

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, good thing, too. They just broke the lock screen this week. That was an annoying half an hour of troubleshooting to do in the middle of a work day.

Pros and cons in each, I suppose.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They just broke

Who did? I didn't quite follow.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading "The lock screen is broken and doesn't work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command."

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Interesting that there's a "failsafe" like that though.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hah. Those used to be a lot more common, this is actually a bit of a blast from the past.

Early graphical Linux interfaces were constantly breaking and telling you to go back to a terminal to restart your X server or fix whatever was broken manually.

That used to be the "but you have to use the terminal" of very early Linux, back when "can you install Debian from scratch?" was the old "can you install Arch from scratch?"

Man, I'm old.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's a thing on hyprlock as well 🙂 If I ssh into my desktop and kill hyprlock, it will give me instructions on how to get it running again.

Yeah actual error messages with helpful information are a thing on Linux.

The last time I tried to install Windows on something, there was some problem with the BIOS config, and Windows would get part of the way through installing and then a "FAILED TO INSTALL ERROR 0xA9BF4DAFDEB99B7AD46" or something. Installing Linux on the same machine said "Unable to install due to BIOS config. See here for details." "here" was a hyperlink to the Ubuntu wiki, which you could open in Firefox because this is a live session with the whole desktop there, not some useless installer environment, nevertheless it gave a QR code to the same wiki page so you could visit it on a mobile device if you wanted to.

It's like it's meant to be used by humans, not the Borg. And not even like Borg Queen Seven of Nine Borg, like TNG era Borg.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't know who made the offending changes. I don't think it's fixed yet, I'm using a workaround at the moment.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maintainers, I guess, as in, the update that was rolled out, was broken for some users. But I don't know if that's the case here

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I meant MS or KDE.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been running Bazzite for a while now, and love it. Basically Kinoite but built for gaming.

Took me a little bit to get a grasp on ostree, but I really like it.

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Just wanna add another Bazzite recommendation! If you're on the fence and feeling like "but my games!" - Bazzite's got your back. Shit works great.