Only necessary if you are a Windows user or an idiot Script Kiddie.
I made a thumbdrive that crashes udevd. Because one drive suddenly failed to write and i cat’ed the image on it’s sibling.
My Mint installation had been happily chugging away for two years now. I just want a PC that works.
You guys really need better hobbies
My old intel MacBook has 3 flavors of Linux, macOS and windows. Because why not go through the order of operations guess and check hellscape.
You’re not wrong.
You forgot “one of them is Arch, btw”
I mean…
me this afternoon, I’ve bought beer and everything
I look at it as a learning experience!
just did this lastnight, went from Arch back to NixOS. was on Arch for like all of a week.
With NixOS and the impermanence flake it’s always in a freshy reinstalled state
Cant count how many times I’ve gotten frustrated with nixos, switched to a trendy new distro, started missing nixos, and switched back in a week with my config bringing me right back
i want nix os but im just not smart enough to figure it out 😭
It’s not so much about being “smart” to figure it out, it’s more like it needs to “click” with you. At first you’ll think it’s stupid, you’ll think it’s a tedious way to do things and configure your system. Then you’ll do something and it’ll suddenly be like “oooooh I get it now, oh man that’s awesome!”. That’s NixOS.
It’s not a distro I recommend to people, it’s one you just have to play around with yourself to see if you like it or not. But I will say I’ve found that the majority of people who do switch to it, it’s the last distro they use. Like I’ll spend a week on something else every few months to try it but I always go back to NixOS now. I just can’t use any other distro long term anymore.
Honestly I don’t think nixos is harder than other advanced distros, its just very different. For instance I’ve used nixos for a while now but I’ve never been able to get a working arch install, even following the guide. I think in a lot of ways nixos is easier because to fix a problem you don’t have to go digging through config files and esoteric shell commands, you usually just have to modify your config and rebuild. The biggest problem is that nix documentation is terrible. I would recommend trying it out in a low stakes environment like a vm using the graphical installer, then just poking around the config file and figuring out what stuff does. Also, as a replacement for good documentation there are some good guides online. I’ve been enjoying guides by tonybtw.com, his videos as well as vimjoyer and no boilerplate on youtube are great
Maybe start in a VM, get things how you want, then copy your config. It just takes time reading through self documenting code^^
Give it another week before you’re back on Arch
nah I find it boring now and it turns into a mess very quickly. only reason I was on Arch is cause i needed a “vacation” from NixOS to get a project done. project is done so went back to NixOS.
Having a NAS to save all my docs in makes switching OSs really fun (until they need a bunch of tweaks to get them just the way I want them to be).
I’m very happy that I have 2hds in this laptop for this exact reason.
I fuck things up often enough that I don’t need to do it for fun.
I was planning on doing this today for a server that I remote administer, but my buddy was too busy. Maybe tomorrow?
Tell me you use Linux without telling me you use Linux
My Linux doesn’t work and I really want to do a fresh install but I’m scared.
If it doesn’t work, you can’t break it.
Oh I bet I can. I’ve managed to blackscreen it once already and when it rebooted, it showed up on the boot screen as plain Ubuntu instead of Mint. The main problem I have is it doesn’t connect to the internet anymore. I had malware on the windoze ssd that kept disconnecting my internet (my uncle must have given me a dodgy windows with a legit key) but it can’t spread onto Linux can it? They’re on separate ssds.
Is there an even more noob friendly distro that even I can’t mess up? I just want to be able to get it online again.
Bazzite should be fairly hard to mess up. I haven’t tried it myself, but it gets great reviews.
Just make sure your files are backed up and then go for it. You can also try a live system first. If it boots into that it’ll run on your machine. Or do a practice run with an old machine or in a VM.
Mate, I didn’t even install the Linux myself, I had to get my techie uncle to do it 😭😭😭 you think I know how to do any of the things you suggested? I was so proud of myself with my sudo! Apt! Upgrade!
And now I have no internet on my Linux 😭😭😭
Come on! You can do it! We believe in you!
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