It semi reliably kills pipewire and some sometimes USB drives won't mount after a kernel update if I don't restart.

Hasn't happened in a little while though

I feel like "everything breaks on linux" was created by Microsoft to sell windows lol

I've had it happen multiple times because of a package that made the Windows Hello (camera) work on Debian, it always crashed my KDE after an update. Not using that anymore and haven't had any issue since.

In fairness, you have to specifically run that, so you know you are doing a firmware update and that you should be careful.

Is mainstream distros shipped it by default? cuz I never heard or have it installed

I feel your pain.

I now keep my data backup separate to the OS backups, so a rollback might time travel me back 3 years, but my data's safe... elsewhere...

(Sure. I might still have to do a restore...)

Wouldn't want you to go 5 minutes thinking on your own, think of the horrors you could come up with. Better start your 5pm copilot therapy session early today.

Yeah fuck them both then, dell think it's a good idea and microslop also think it's a good and allowed dell to do it

I've had Windows kill itself by doing a BIOS update and deleting the bitlocker keys in the process, on a computer where bitlocker was automatically enabled by the OS without the user knowing, and of course, without any backups of the keys except on a Microsoft account that was only logged in on that computer (the user didn't know the password for the account either).

I know there's user error in there, but for an OS that caters to people who barely know how to use a computer, it seems like a terrible choice to do all that.

Yeah I kinda got lucky this time

Unfortunately yeah, these things still happen with Linux. I love linux, and I don't use Windows, but all the "Linux never does anything wrong", or "works on my machine, it must be a skill issue" people don't realize how much that prevents people from moving over.

Linux is a looooooot better than it used to be, but pretending that problems don't exist, is how Linux, and the culture surrounding it, got such a bad reputaion for such a long time.

User is just lonely, this has nothing to do with anything they have experienced, and the screenshot is just a regular diagnostic

Me too l, I only used Linux for 2 years and I never had any problems with driver after update or any problems in general really.

Sometimes both. I recently started using an old Macbook with Void, which they have notorious broadcom-wl, so I searched a lot and a got a micro network adapter. It was actually quite hard to find with a working driver because Realtek. Anyway this one I found seemed to had a dkms driver on Void repo, so I went with that.

The dkms driver gives bunch of errors for some reason. I didn't have time to debug it and just compiled from Github. Naturally I have to compile it every kernel update. I probably can add a hook for it but haven't done that yet because lazy.

Edit: Added a kernel hook. It's not harder than writing this comment. :)

It's funny, cause i haven't had this happen on linux, but i've had both audio and network issues on windows 11

Yes