StarMageThe fix is scheduled for the next release
cosmicrookieActually more like a self fulfilling prophesy
IMO many will leave Linux just before finding the fix!
I had tried dual boot but kept going back to windows because i knew how to do things there without having to mess with anything
Its only after i removed windows altogether and only ran Mint, that i was forced to seriously look for solutions. Once you do find them though, you dont need to mess around with anything that much any more
agent_flounder“When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated.” —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October
AeroLemmingI don’t really get how that worked. If I was in a group of people arriving to a new and mysterious land and our leader decided to order the ships burned so that we couldn’t head back, I’d assume he’d lost his marbles and elect a new leader.
A suggestion for everyone that’s kinda new, and to be honest, grizzled vets too… Use chatgpt as a trouble shooting tool. It’s really surprising how good it is sometimes. I’ve had it write bash scripts in minutes, solve obscure Firefox issues, fix game settings for barely compatible games… So many things
ricdehPrincipally not a bad idea, but run a local model while at it!
Not very accessible, in the vast majority of (troubleshooting, nothing private) cases free gpt is the best option (fast, free, openAI training on that chat might even be beneficial to the community). Decent GPU’s for LLM are stupid pricey.
It wasn’t until windows shat itself and I couldn’t boot into it anymore that I took my Linux drive more seriously.
乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖIf you really want to run Linux : Distro hop
If you are not happy, then try a few more distros.
Yeah, that’s what I i did, first tried Nobara, I liked it but encountered some issues, tried to fix them but I realized I spent too much time and there’s no clear fix, so I hoped on Fedora and everything works nicely, exept for the Multimedia drivers which I’m still trying to fix…
Seriously, how can a huge distro like Fedora still be so horribly user-unfriendly when it comes to basic thing like multimedia playback.
This is what seems to have helped for me on Fedora:
sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia --setop="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
sudo dnf groupupdate sound-and-video
sudo dnf install mozilla-openh264
rm ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.x86_64.bin
I was having trouble with many h265 videos until I cleared my gstreamer cache (I only needed to clear the 64-bit cache, this thread suggests clearing both 32 and 64-bit):
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/h265-videos-wont-play-in-totem-after-installing-all-codecs/87341/17
Oh, Thank you very much multimedia playback behaves weirdly on my machine, I’ll try these fixes and let you know
Temple or nothing
HexareiI’ve not distro hopped in ages, ever since I found my one true love arch btw
I actually switched back to Windows a few weeks ago because I was so tired of all the NVIDIA problems I had on Wayland. A few days later I read that explicit sync finally got merged, lol.
I was just about to give up on it the other day after using Mint for the last 6 months because I was having weird instability issues. Anytime I would play a game it would freeze within 15 mins. Turns out XMP had somehow gotten turned on in UEFI settings. Must have done it by accident the last time I was in there. Anyways, disabled it and all my issues disappeared. I would have been pissed if I wiped Linux and reinstalled Windows only to still have issues.
I need to dual boot Windows for my stupid Xbox games and stupid Office that don’t run in Wine. 😭
Gamepass isn’t for me, but dual booting for it is understandable. But office? I’ve found LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are usually “good enough,” and if you really need true MS Office, I believe they offer web editors now
The web editor isn’t nearly as good as their desktop app counterpart. LibreOffice is fine for basic usage, but Excel is still king if you’re using any kind of advanced feature.
RustmilianI know you probably mean newer Xbox games, but check out xemu if you like retro titles.
Steam and Lutris are amazing 😎
So you just like MS Office?
I actually do but I’m slowly getting used to LibreOffice 🙂
Bzw, you can choose something Ribbon-like or tabs in view > user interface (or similiar, it’s Benutzeroberfläche hier).
Possibly linuxVirtualization is your friend
What did this say before the edit?
Limitless_screamingFact: 90% of gambling addicts quit right before they're about to hit it big
Heh. Knowing that context puts a different spin on this meme ;-)
I’ve been using nothing but Linux for 5 years and I still have problems every now and then.
But the same can be said with windows. My life long windows user friend occasionally (a few times a year) reaches out about some significant issues they are experiencing with windows on their modern desktop.
I truly wouldn’t recommend Linux for a fairly tech illiterate person like him, but really Linux is better in every category that matters to me.
I truly wouldn’t recommend Linux for a fairly tech illiterate person like him
I would actually argue the opposite, linux is way more intuitive for new people who hasn’t used a pc before or hasn’t used windows long enough to fill their brain with their unconsistent mess. I’ve seen 3 variants of this already with people close to me ( last one of them encouraged by me). Kinda mind boggling.
The moment a new user needs to use command line, they are out.
It isn’t mind boggling at all.
Untrue statement plus in some distros you don’t need the terminal at all. Fear to the terminal is included in windows’ inconsistent mess, as i said, to real first time users it’s not that horrible to “talk to the pc so it does what you told it to do”.
Also you don’t get to decide if an experience i had felt mind boggling or not (?
I mean he’s tech illiterate when it comes to anything semi complicated but with the way he uses his pc and the software he uses it would just not be possible for him to switch at all, would be unable to do 70% of the stuff he wants to do.
Linux is only good for the truly tech illiterate/pretty noice users in my opinion. After that you hit a point where they are literate just enough that they would need to solve problems on linux they wouldn’t have to on windows and their inability to solve problems on Linux make their experience bad.
One level above that Linux is the better option again though.
Avid AmoebaFound the Microsoft agent.
You can usually find the solution to Linux problems on the forum for your distro.
With windows problems, the answer is usually “nothing can be done unless microsoft actually decides to fix it”. That’s after digging through 10 or more pages of search results filled with AI generated crap.
Yes, and I would like to add that if you really know what you’re doing, you can even fix complicated, deep-rooted problems by yourself.
“nothing can be done unless microsoft actually decides to fix it”
That is just a straight up lie
I haven’t encountered a SINGLE issue like that in all my years of IT in heavy Microsoft environments. You can always find a solution, albeit having some small caveats like you have in every open source software. Every single issue is documented somewhere since 80% of desktops run it. The community is just so much bigger. You can even straight up contact Microsoft directly if you encounter anything that hasn’t been encountered before.
Don’t blame your lack of Google fu on Microsoft just because you don’t like their design philosophy.
pewgar_seemsimandroidshut the fuck up capitalist pig.
MoorshouI would say so far, I can find the solutions just like i can with Microsoft, i can even leverage it with AI to get my problems solved. and actually, in linux mint, they have a irc and forum i can contact from my desktop.
Pretty sure that 90% of Linux users don’t switch to Windows.
I still boot to windows every now and then to play games. But each time windows painfully reminds me why I hate it
I have never liked Windows. Unix workstations or linux pretty much since the mid 80’s. My current pet peeve is companies that block email clients except Outlook from connecting to their mail server (Exchange).
I thought it meant 90% of the ones switching to windows
That’s what I had in mind
Glad it is not 99% :-)
What if I do not have any problems. I haven’t had issues in many, many yeats.
I mean, if you duel boot, it’s just a matter of time until Windows nukes your other OS. At least with me, my Linux was about to solve world peace, but Windows got wind of that and shut it the fuck down.
Meme is correct, they’re coming for you.
DoxinWindows basically never nukes the actual linux install. It DOES like breaking the bootloader though. Which is fixable but still deeply annoying.
Ah damn this is exactly what happened a few days ago.
My popos boot entry suddenly disappeared. I can still just boot from the physical ssd it’s installed on, but I found it strange it just pooped out somehow.
Any pointers on how to fix it?
Here’s an article on how to fix it.
TLDR: You need to boot from a live disk, mount your install and reinstall the bootloader.
I still need to fix mine, thanks for the link. The weirdest break it did once was messing with my Wi-Fi driver, managed to break Linux’ driver somehow, making the Internet a no go. Still no idea how Windows managed that though, they shouldn’t be messing with my bios. :/
Make sure you disable fast boot in Windows. I’ve read that can put devices into a state where Linux can’t use them.
I haven’t had it happen to me for a while now. I used to have a boot repair liveCD that’d always do the trick, but I don’t think that specific distro even exists anymore.
The gist is you’ll want to boot a liveCD and use the liveCD to reinstall GRUB, I’m sure you can find the right incantation to do so online somewhere.
GladiusBI have never had this issue on Mint/Windows duel boot
I have been running it for at least 6 months if not longer. So , I think that’s a valid sample size
Do you receive windows updates?