Every thread has one Linux bro, stumbling around dazed and confused, still searching to understand why people use a different OS. Always asking "Why do people even use that?" Ignorant of the litany of reasons the real world behaves the way it does.

Windows sucks, in a lot of ways, we get it. But holy hell find a different schrick.

There's a lot more than one of us here, "bro"

Edit: Windows is trash. Fuck Microsoft.

os updates write large amount of data to disk at once. especially a highly bloated os like modern windows. whatever the trigger, it's still faulty nand controller. you can very well cooy a 20G file and see disk is corrupted.

That’s a good point on how the OS could be “causing” it. I don’t think my take was very likely after I thought about it for a while.

Welp, Windows 11 is going to make me quit my sysadmin job of 15+ years, after all. I already refuse to use it at home but have no options at work. Bet dollars to donuts this was some sort of vibe coder AI fuck up we'll never be able to confirm.

Just the one? You block the rest of us already?

This is the first Windows update that has significantly altered how my daily driver laptop works (read: for the worse).

It's too inconvenient to use a Windows computer anymore. I'm switching to Linux

I thought I was the only one who found KDE to be far TOO customizable. I used GNOME on openSUSE and actually enjoyed it. Used KDE on PoP! and hated it. Of course, the distro may have played a part in that. PoP never seemed to run right on my dual gfx Yoga 720. Using Cinnamon with Mint on it and I like it, but agree with a lack of all desired customization options. I can do about 90% of the tweaks I like to make.

I've never heard of cydia, though. Of course I'm like a 110yo on Windows when it comes to Linux usage. I couldn't even get openSUSE to reinstall from a flash drive after testing some other distros. Kept getting out of memory when it would attempt to install. I do think it was my favorite flavor of all the ones I tried!

NG Lv 3 means you no longer have a computer.

Is your drive 60% or more full and have you tried to transfer something 50gb or larger? From what I saw, those are some of the triggers.

cydia was/is the jailbroken iphone extension store

This Post was the final straw for me. Just spent the afternoon setting up Linux Mint Mate and it's working well so far!

My assumption was it had something to do with the drivers for the controller, and the update flooding it faster than it could take data and not caching everything it couldn't cram into controller DRAM, causing parts to just get dropped wholesale.

I haven't had disk issues, am running a 980 Pro SSD currently, but I've definitely noticed other weirdness that sure feels more like that? Half-Life crashing repeatedly in map loads sometimes succeeding fine and other times not. Firefox broke wholesale until I reinstalled it and even then had to do a refresh to fully solve it. I haven't seen anything else weird thankfully but this definitely has me concerned and glad I'm backing up with a very long rolling period just in case. Gonna uninstall this update for sure.

Please hit my work computer plz plz plz

as far as I know, Debian is the "gold standard" for stable linux to the point of being one of the most famous distros used on servers as well.

Exceptions are using unstable/testing versions of debian or accounting for an windows program to just work perfectly under wine (but that is a microsoft-linux integration which MS almost always wants to not happen)

I so much want to, but the programs I run are partly windows only. I don't know how to switch yet. Next to that, I tried Linux once but was unable to reach netwerk drives from my NAS. I tried everything, none of the solutions I found actually worked. I seem to have a curse running into issues no one else had. Struggling my whole life with that. Today I spent the entire day fixing Kodi, which suddenly stopped working. None of the solutions on internet worked. I managed to fix it my own way, eventually. Just to play a video without losing my "videos watched".

MS is working hard to force me though. I'm almost as far as to say goodbye to apps I've used my whole life. Like Directory Opus for example.

Ya I’ve heard this before! I’ve also heard there is still a lot of problem solving to learn for maintenance and some problems that often arise. But haven’t taken the time yet to familiarize myself with it.

*Glares at work computer

WELL...? WE'RE WAITING.gif