• jonne@infosec.pub
    6·
    11 days ago

    It was definitely fun in the olden days when you fucked up your xorg.conf and you had to use elinks to try to look up a solution. At least nowadays your smartphone can be that second working computer.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      1·
      11 days ago

      Xorg.conf was genuinely something I never quite grokked.

      I mean, I get it, it’s a conf file for Xorg… but in practice, either your X11 worked out of the box, or it just didn’t, and no manner of fiddling with the config and restarting the server would save it.

      You could install other drivers and blacklist others, and that would get it to work, but touching the Xorg config file itself and expecting different results was like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    2·
    11 days ago

    If I had a nickel for every time my phone saved me from massive failures in Linux, I’d have 4 nickels. "<.<

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      11 days ago

      I’ve been there. I’m 100% sure my PC is now a brick, but I run across a post by some random person online:

      "Press these keys, then type this exactly and hit “Enter”

      And roughly five minutes later my PC is stable, purring happily, and two minor annoyances have gone away thanks to package updates.

      Thank you all, kind Internet Linux guru strangers.

      Edit: More like 25 minutes, really. 20 minutes of my reading docs to verify why this solution can work, and then 5 minutes for it to work.

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    To a slightly lesser extent, that’s also true of Windows - severe malfunctions are less likely to happen, but when they do happen, fixing them is almost always an absolute clusterfuck, and when it isn’t, it’s downright impossible.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
      0·
      11 days ago

      At least Linux usually has some useful error messages. On Windows, you get a fucking “Error Code 0x0000000f” and looking it up usually leads to some confidently incompetent layperson telling the OP to make sure their drivers are updated, or someone who managed to trick Microsoft into giving them a title of “assistant” on the official forum suggesting Windows Diagnostics like that’s ever done anything useful, and at that point I just wanted to fucking die.

      I’ll take a fucked-up xorg.conf over that clown show.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          0·
          11 days ago

          Blue screens are usually a defense against shitty code fucking over the hardware.

          It halts the entire computer to prevent the hardware from being damaged.

          I don’t know what Linux does to prevent that, but I hope it has something similar.