▲ 327 ▼ Unprecedented Linux Growth in Europe Amid Windows 10 End-of-Life (blazetrends.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children) Interesting that there's a "failsafe" like that though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] MudMan@fedia.io 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago It's a thing on hyprlock as well 🙂 If I ssh into my desktop and kill hyprlock, it will give me instructions on how to get it running again. permalink fedilink source parent [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MudMan@fedia.io 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago It's a thing on hyprlock as well 🙂 If I ssh into my desktop and kill hyprlock, it will give me instructions on how to get it running again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago It's a thing on hyprlock as well 🙂 If I ssh into my desktop and kill hyprlock, it will give me instructions on how to get it running again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent