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Hey, as an old school linux guy, I am always curious:
How the fuck do y’all seem to manage to fuck Linux up so bad that you seem to be so scared of bricking your systems?
I mean, really. I see this complaint all the time. And in 25+ years of Linux, I can think of maybe once or twice where I meased something up with
ddway back in the day when that was the only tool.for certain jobs.How are y’all managing to mess yourselves up?
I don’t have strong feelings one way or the other regarding Flatpak. I am just trying to understand why everyone seems so deathly afraid their linux systems will break when I have literally had way more windows systems just randomly do that to me over the years. How is your lived experience so radically different than mine?
Nvidia drivers… So many times.
If you never broke it, my first guess would be you never actually tried to do anything non-vanilla with it. You never tried to get multi-screen resolutions in the 10’s or factional scaling in the early 20’s. or tried to update an ATI or Nvidia graphics driver back when it was a binary blob every other kernel with it was a bomb waiting to go off.
And the whole “deathly afraid” is straight-up BS. Your tone is not appreciated. If you come back at me with more elitism, I’m just going to block you.
So it is people running beta software at the kernel level?
Edit: I am not trying to be elitist - why would messing with X11 cause your system to be bricked? Come up in run level 3 and fix your issue in the terminal… ?