• Trail@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Yes. If I ever need something else because something unforeseen happened (which has not happened for years, and I use a non-default one), I can boot up from a live USB and fix things.

      I use arch btw.

      • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        I also use Arch btw. I have an lts kernel installed just in case. Came in handy when the amdgpu driver was broken for a week. The screen was flashing on Wayland.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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      13 hours ago

      Users should never have to fiddle with the fstab manually. It’s a shame the internet is still pointing to it when asked most of the time instead of explaining the GUI disk tools. Or at least some CLI management tool in case that one exists.

      • Richard@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Wrong. You just need to know what you’re doing and must not be impatient. Just spend 5 damn minutes reading before you do the thing. We don’t always need unnecessary abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions.

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        8 hours ago

        This is the correct mindset to have when trying to push Linux as a viable alternative to the big two.

        If you make more things easy for newcomers and just anyone in general, you’ll eventually get more users, and a larger base that then correlates to higher overall usage of Linux. You know, like those screenshots of the Linux install base we see every now and then?

        You don’t have to keep Linux behind arbitrary lines, but for some reason, that’s all we like to do.

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    1 day ago

    Reminds me of that time I updated my UEFI firmware which automatically re-enabled secure boot which caused my Nvidia driver to fail to load on boot because Nvidia doesn’t sign them so I was stuck with the noveau(spelling?) driver which would crash when I tried to log into my DE. What an adventure figuring that out was. Oh, and the cherry on top: updating the firmware didn’t fix the initial issue I was troubleshooting.

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      10 hours ago

      Ugh, I just went through the same thing last week. Let’s just say that checking if secure boot had been turned back on was NOT one of the first 500 things that came to mind during troubleshooting.

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        10 hours ago

        Exactly. I was about to rip my hair out before I thought to check my UEFI settings.

    • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      If it where arch, but its manjaro. Somehow during the last kernel update the grub info was not changed to point to the current kernel names…still pointed at the old kernel…and that had been replaced. After figuring all that out in chroot, fix was as simple as changing a single line in that grub file