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I still remember the time I managed to unwillingly run two DE at the same time simultaneously. The screen was refreshing between gnome and kde at 50Hz. It was tripping.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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These are the "I don't have epilepsy but I sure as hell don't want to find out right now that I have it" moments.
This is the greatest truth of being a computer person. Our shit is also broken, just in ways you'd never heard of.
Guys and gals, please use Niri. It has animations, blur and wayland.
Never crashed in my one year of using it.
First time using hyprland with cachyos: wow it's so productive, I love it!
After one month I log in after a yay and everything is broken. I waste a full day adapting the config from 0.44 to 0.45. Wow that was worth, I love it.
Another month passes, and again it's broken to 0.50
I just gave up
Can't they just put a discontinuation warning for a couple releases to let people adapt their config instead of suddenly having the surprise of booting to a broken wm?
welcome to life as an AwesomeWM user. After a normal system upgrade -- oh look my Lua version is incompatible with the libraries I need, guess I need to build them from scratch and tell my WM to use them
Maybe try an atomic distro? It'll still break but you can roll back and deal with it later.
it's not really broken-broken to be unusable, just all the window management rules syntax that changed suddenly and you need to read 24 pages of documentation to guess what's changed and adapt the config.
honestly, after dealing with this 3 times in 3 months, i am no longer interested in this wm.
It's like if your friend rearranges your living room for pure fun when you come back tired from work. Funny prank done once in a lifetime, remove from existence the third time.
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That's why, as a computer nerd, I use a non modified Linux Mint.
There's the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.
In America we say "never buy a mechanic's car."
I've recently moved everything over to CachyOS after a Windows 10 LTSC security update failed to install multiple times.
I'm actually really surprised by how well everything works, including my nvidia GPU, microphone, and drawing tablet. The only thing that's not working rn is my Canon printer but that might be more of my own skill issue with using CUPS and CAPT and can be remedied by emailing myself a PDF and printing from my phone.
I was fully expecting to fuck my shit up forever.
EDIT: To be clear, Windows would occasionally crash on me and take forever to start back up. Linux is running much better.
I recently had trouble with a very old Canon printer, I acquired. After some attempts that even involved tracking down original driver files from 13 years ago, I realized I just had to install 'gutenprint' and then add it throuoh my KDE menu. Just works now.
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This is why you keep 2 computers. One that is dull and as stock as you can. And then you have that beater box to get stupid with. Drive the sum biotch right into that kernal panic at 100mph just for fun.
So therapeutic some days......
That's not how it works.
- Okay, let's read a chapter of this book about Software Design.
- I need to take notes
- Ugh, it sucks that I have to do three steps to open them
- Let's write a short fish script
- Actually is there a more elegant note taking app
- Research
- Setting up the most over engineered zettelkasten solution
- It's time for bed, you have two broken note taking apps, but still an open to do to read a chapter of that book
If you think that is a true story, you are absolutely right.
That's continuing the tradition leve stuff right there.
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my linux honeymoon has far gone. nowadays I just use fedora gnome and actually work on something that makes money.
my linux honeymoon has far gone.
Reminded me of:
In the spring, we climbed the rolling hills
And talked about our budding plans
And we smiled
Our faces like a mirror showing us our secret sides
But then the fights, the sharp words splintering the night
How I couldn't be what you'd need
But oh how I could make you bleed
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Bullshit all of my computers work, maybe this guy just sucks.
-Average linux user
And also
Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.
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I'm not a computer guy. I'm a bicycle guy.
I build them up myself, buy cheap ones on ebay to fix and modify, know basically all there is to know about stem standards, drivetrain compatibility, etc.
I currently have 6 non-functional bikes in my garage.
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