It sometimes is, but then sometimes Linux is not to blame.

Yesterday I was installing CachyOS on my son’s laptop, because that’s what he chose to use instead of Windows 10. The desktop came up fine, but no wifi adaptor was detected. I could try another more mainstream distro, but I wanted my kid to have what he chose. So we went troubleshooting. Googled the laptop model, found the adaptor, found the matching kernel module, checked the logs… and there it was, a cryptic error -110. Googled that and there was an answer: disable Windows Fast Boot.

It turns out that Windows locks the wifi adaptor when shutting down in Fast Boot mode. So after disabling it and a couple of reboots later, CachyOS was installing flawlessly.

It served as a lesson for me and an example for my kid to persevere and learn more.

The 1350’s specifically.

As a relatively recent country (by European standards), USA did not go through the Middle Age. I guess this is it. Enjoy the public burnings of heretics.

I worked in a company where this was used for implementing tamper evident logs, that allowed auditors to check for tampering.

Blockchain is just a tool that can have legitimate uses other than scamming people.

Tamper evident logs are a good use case for blockchain.

My advice is: this isn’t Windows, so if you look at the logs you will probably find clues to what is wrong. With those clues you can find help online, either from blog articles or from Linux forums like this one.

I know reinstallation is the default in the Windows world, but you stand to learn a lot from trying to solve the issues you are facing.

I had the same experience.

I kept comparing it with the absolute masterpiece that is Half-Life and it felt boring.

The story doesn’t pull you, no characters are memorable, in some areas I felt like I was cleaning the exact same room over and over.

Even compared to something like Doom II, which lacks any real story and is all about playability and fun, it felt lacking.

I guess it’s just not for me.

I have a machine with specs like those where I installed Haiku.

I don’t daily drive it, but it’s fun to use and it’s quite snappy.

It’s (almost) always Nvidia.

Think of it as leveling up.

I use Flatpaks for a lot of stuff (Steam, Firefox, and some other stuff that I feel should not have access to my tax returns in the Documents directory). It’s not just for beginners, Flatpaks are useful for other reasons.

Don’t feel bad, I’ve used Linux since 1995 and don’t have enough skills to use Bottles.

I do however game a lot, using mainly Steam and Heroic. You can try to start there.

This is the kind of selfless, talented, focused person that I am thankful for when I look at the FOSS ecosystem and how far it has come.

An it really deeply annoys me when these talented persons, who’ve spent countless hours reverse engineering crap, undocumented, proprietary technologies that the original vendor didn’t care enough for its’ users to document or open source, get blasted online by entitled brats that say “Linux sux, my AAA game don’t work!”.

My thank you to all of them that made all the great tools that I use and love today.

Why do you have to have this xor that? Why can’t I like both? I’m sure both have use cases where they work best.

Drop the hate already.

Why fear artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so much more powerful?

Qwen 2.5, running on my laptop, had this to say:

“Moon shines bright, stars dance in the sky.”

Not very poetic if you ask me. I guess you used a similar LLM.

ZFS is your friend.

https://superuser.com/questions/1637641/how-exactly-do-btrfs-zfs-and-related-filesystems-prevent-bit-rot

But nothing replaces a good backup strategy! Borg backup can help you there.

You’ll find that MusicBrainz Picard is a heaven sent tool to properly tag your files, with optional proper renaming.

It takes some getting used to, and I find it works best in whole albums, but produces a much more professional library.

We do what we must because we can.

Look, you are the county that came up with hooligan concept. Do try to apply it locally. I’ve seen the french act harsher for pettier reasons.