• Elliott@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m amazed Windows is allowed to pull some of it’s shit, but the US doesn’t seem real keen on anti monopoly anything anymore.

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    1 year ago

    This kind of thing is a huge part of why I fell in love with Linux so long ago.

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        1 year ago

        lol, no. Being able to do what I want with it is what I have appreciated. It’s like having a computer without that obnoxious glue in the screws so you can take it apart if you want to.

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    1 year ago

    Let’s be honest. If you haven’t broken your bootloader at some point in time, you haven’t experienced Linux.

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      The only thing I fucked up was /etc/sudoers. Once it refused sudo to me, my colleague told me about visudo and having another terminal with root already open as backup. And handed me a bootable USB stick to fix my fuckup. Good times, lessons were learned.

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      As a Linux noob, the only time I’ve broken my bootloader was updating my distro after ignoring it for a year. I ignored the update because it broke a badly made script badly solving the complex problem caused by a simple problem that I ignored the solution to.

      I finally fixed the simple problem because I needed to upgrade a library to get a modded launcher working so I could play with my friends. And I was thinking of rewriting the firmware for my macro keyboard to be better structured anyways.

      I went back to the old firmware with a simple fix as the new one has a weird bug that if I hold two “even” keys at once, I get spammed down signals for the higher order one.

      Linux has been fun!

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        I mean if you know how to write firmware you don’t really count as a Linux noob, regardless of your lack of experience with linux

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      I feel like it’s harder to break the bootloader these days. All my dual-booting escapades worked fine, I still have most of my hair, and there’s no way my Linux skills have improved that much.

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        I think that the major issue with the bootloader is when a user confuses the device file for the entire drive (/dev/sda) with the device file for the partition (/dev/sda1), whch is not entirely unreasonable for a new user who doesn’t understand the naming system to do. Like, mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda rather than mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1. Then you overwrite the entire drive, starting with the MBR, rather than the contents of a partition with your new filesystem.

  • halva@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    /🤓 mode on

    it’s not a bootloader response tho, it’s when init couldn’t be initialized

    /🤓 mode off

  • worker9@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You really can’t uninstall edge in Windows? I knew that was a thing with IE back in the day.

    • ⓓⓐⓡⓣⓗⓟⓔⓝⓘⓢ⑥⑨@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      You can uninstall the newest version of edge in Windows. The newer edge is chromium based and it seems you can remove it now. However the previous version of edge that was built into windows could not be removed with traditional methods.

      • RCMaehl [Any]@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You can’t uninstall edge without breaking things such as start menu search, widgets, bing AI, The upcoming co-pilot, and a lot more. I’ve personally been battling for people by creating MSEdgeRedirect, but there’s been two to three attempts to break the project so far.

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    Well you can still uninstall edge on windows, even if it break your system, you can do it. There are tons of guides you can find on internet. It’s basically running the installer with an uninstall flag.

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    I’ll never forget when I was just learning about Arch and I installed it sharing the same NTFS directories as Windows. It didn’t work great.