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Cwilliams, 8 months ago (edited 4 days ago) to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

At one point I had the coolest Ventoy USB; CyberRe, LABEL=hakr. But then I got a new computer and apparently the ssd was /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda. While I was installing Arch, When I created a new GPT partition on /dev/sda, it wiped my beautiful Ventoy 😢

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Been there, done that. But I haven’t had any problems once I switched to systemd-boot 🤷

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Man, gotta love apt sometimes

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in "Must Try" distros and DEs?

It’s like Arch, but x10. People think Arch > Any other distro, Wayland > Xorg, Hyprland > any other DE, Rust > C, etc

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to programmer_humor in ifn't

they’d’nt’ve

Aside: rip Tom Scott

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

Agree. The tradeoff of building everything from source just doesn’t pay off

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

Literally

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?

It appears that this only supports Google Cloud storage buckets, not Google Drive

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in X11 tiling WMs

For X11, BSPWM was my daily driver. (before I switched to Sway, then Hyprland)

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

The idea of installing Linux on a vacuum…

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to programmer_humor in Fitbit Clock Face

If only fitness apis were actually that easy

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to privacy in roku remote app showing ads now

Well in that case, you could look into Plasma Big screen, which you could control from your phone with KDE Connect

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in New in Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux

Been trying to get my friend into Linux, but he uses a MB. Maybe this will finally do it for him

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to linux in Zorin OS 17: Linux for Windows Users | ExplainingComputers

You even have to pay for the full version, just like Windows!

Cwilliams, 8 months ago to privacy in Can I edit .docx files without a Microsoft 365 subscription and if not are there any alternatives

M$ is the best abbreviation for Microsoft yet