Was it some vendor’s prebuilt PC maybe ? Those can have some weird parts that can be hard to get to work properly on Linux.

How ? I did manage to accidentally lock myself out of my main Nvme drive the first time because I chose the encryption option and fucked up the password because of keyboard layout shenanigans, so I reinstalled it without encryption because I’m the only person with access to this PC anyway, but everything else went smooth as butter.

I second this. Works almost flawlessly out of the box (I had to install another version of the Nvidia driver from the pop shop because my 3080 didn’t like the 470 version but other than that I had no issues, except with some games that require a kernel level anticheat)

I have only used it for a little more than a day so far, but I’m already in love with it because it basically required 0 tinkering to get my Nvidia GPU to work, and the few games I have tried have been running almost flawlessly.

So you’re telling me I should just turn up the volume instead of fixing my install ?

Perhaps you just have a different view on what is or is not an ad.

Always fucks me up when I use someone else’s computer and immediately get assaulted by the fucking candy crush ad in the start menu, start grumbling about it and/or ask if they want me to disable it, and the person goes “idk I never noticed it lol”

Good thing that the existence of a GUI for a program doesn’t prevent you from using its CLI version then !

This guy murders. Username checks out too

I’ve had two phones die because of the storage chip, around 5-6 years after buying them.

Could be a scanner

Wifi card. Well, I don’t really use it but it is plugged in.

There’s only one outgoing call in this screenshot, if I’m not mistaken. That’s acceptable

I’m leaning into the right of this meme more and more with every passing day

Nihilism. And drugs I guess

Hmmm… This looks like an illegally smol cat. May I see your license ?

I dropped Reddit because I was feeling like it was being heavily astroturfed (always has been, I know, but I think lately it’s been way worse) and also because fuck spez (for several reasons)

The geology dorm at my university had one called “geology rocks”, always made me chuckle.

Which is why I think this is them doing malicious compliance. “Oh, you didn’t pick a default search engine ? Guess we’ll just use whatever instead of not displaying the search option or prompting you to pick a search engine”

At this point I’m starting to believe that they’re maliciously complying with European antitrust laws. I remember reading recently that they got a friendly reminder that defaulting to their own search engine is a monopolistic practice and I started noticing this kind of stuff after that

I have not used it for a long time but it’s really easy to fuck the install and potentially your entire system, depending on the fuckup(s).

As a matter of fact, that is exactly why I used it the first time : since it’s a nice lightweight distro and it has some interesting gotchas regarding installation, our sysadmin teacher had us all install it and set it up before we could actually use our distro of choice