You’ve got make sure you program the time machine correctly though…

Ahaha we’ve got you now!

That doesn’t sound safe. I hope you sent this message with your phone. If you did it from the old computer and happen to have valuable data please feel free to share your IP address, someone might appreciate it…

I specified that it would be running nothing (other than the init system which is the tty). Thereby the amount of ram required should not vary by much.

I know it’s very efficient and small (I believe it needs less than 80mib of ram with nothing else running) and that they leave out some of the basic commands like man to save space. Maybe they wrote more minimal versions of some coreutils?

Yup Just delete all binary data from your disks, including the bios and get a quantum computer that you somehow program and control by hand.

How about a ‘Just because we use it doesn’t mean it’s any good’ tier?

Sounds about right. In my case I think it didn’t even wipe the whole thing.

I just don’t understand why they share EFI partitions.

Best bit is Windows couldn’t boot for me either (all bios entries were empty). I’m glad I had a live USB laying around.

On a laptop you bring everywhere I think it’s ok if you seriously think somebody might try to steal your data. On a desktop computer with the drive screwed onto the motherboard who’s going to steal it?

On my phone yes but monitors are way too expensive for the effect it has.

Although a terminal with a completely black background sounds pretty cool…

Hah the movies I watch never existed in HDR!

That friend sounds like they were pretty stupid or they just had an unrelated issue at the same time.

Keep in mind that if it is a serious security issue many projects have a way of reporting them separately from other bug reports so the issues can be patched before being published.

Not that the HDMI forum would allow that in oss at all… But I get the point. Honestly though if the stuttering goes away on Wayland I personally won’t have any more issues.

Maybe a social interaction manual would be an idea.

I honestly try my best to be helpful in most cases but if were something related to a specific program I would suggest reading the manual because otherwise I’ll be the one doing it for them. If necessary I’ll show them where to find the manual and how I normally look through it.

Same here. Occasionally I need to play around with wine/proton but it works.

It has no shortcomings if you have infinite time to write your own patches first. That’s something you can’t legally do on windows.

Theoretically almost all shortcomings can be overcome apart from the time you spend.

Realistically there are a few shortcomings but for me they are barely noticeable and the customisability and package managers more than make up for any troubles I personally run into. And it’s foss.

I only recommend Linux to people who are in similar situations to me. Unfortunately most people I know use some windows only games or share the device with others and are scared of messing up the installation.

I mostly jokingly recommend it whenever someone complains about Microsoft messing something up for them, encountering a problem and not finding out why it’s happening.

I think most Linux users (including me) are just cheap and don’t even have hdr. One of my two monitors has a dent in frame and has one DVI port and power. I think a lot of the maintainers are similar and therefore don’t prioritise problems they don’t have yet.

I think it’s a real shame how bad the Nvidia experience can be but at this point I’ve found that if the drivers from the arch repos don’t work nicely the flatpak ones usually will. Wayland is of course still a problem for now but hopefully not for long.

I’m guessing it has legacy bios which then means you need a cd/floppy.