Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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I did the dual boot setup with Win10 and Ubuntu during my initial foray into Linux about 8 years ago and liked it until the boot loader got messed up and prevented me from loading Ubuntu anymore; I eventually just gave up on trying to fix. Apparently this is something that Windows is doing unless you make special provisions to protect against it. In the end, it was the forced obsolescence of Win10 that drove me back to Linux and I am super happy on Fedora after trying and failing to get Mint to work to my satisfaction.
Boring and just working are exactly what I want my OS to do. Open source options are proving to be effective or even superior to what I was using before and I have even switched my kid over to Linux already. My wife wasn't having any of it though so I painfully migrated her to Win11 and had to purchase or get subs for her daily-use applications that worked fine on Win10.
Sorry your experience wasn't as issue free as mine was. But I've heard others complain that certain win updates break the option to boot into linux, so your not the only one who suffered from that.