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Unprecedented Linux Growth in Europe Amid Windows 10 End-of-Life (blazetrends.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading "The lock screen is broken and doesn't work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Interesting that there's a "failsafe" like that though.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Hah. Those used to be a lot more common, this is actually a bit of a blast from the past.

    Early graphical Linux interfaces were constantly breaking and telling you to go back to a terminal to restart your X server or fix whatever was broken manually.

    That used to be the "but you have to use the terminal" of very early Linux, back when "can you install Debian from scratch?" was the old "can you install Arch from scratch?"

    Man, I'm old.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah actual error messages with helpful information are a thing on Linux.

    The last time I tried to install Windows on something, there was some problem with the BIOS config, and Windows would get part of the way through installing and then a "FAILED TO INSTALL ERROR 0xA9BF4DAFDEB99B7AD46" or something. Installing Linux on the same machine said "Unable to install due to BIOS config. See here for details." "here" was a hyperlink to the Ubuntu wiki, which you could open in Firefox because this is a live session with the whole desktop there, not some useless installer environment, nevertheless it gave a QR code to the same wiki page so you could visit it on a mobile device if you wanted to.

    It's like it's meant to be used by humans, not the Borg. And not even like Borg Queen Seven of Nine Borg, like TNG era Borg.

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