@nixCraft maybe 25 years ago. Not these days ... Unless one has chosen something a more advanced to install ... like Arch
@nixCraft Especially if Nvidia is involved and you haven't got the right drivers installed. Or, in one instance I dealt with, nouveau doesn't recognize your video card's version number because it's too new, so instead of booting into 1024x768 VGA mode as any sanely written driver might, it throws an error and halts at a grub command line menu from hell in text mode without internet connectivity.
Can we all just agree on what goes into a basic, get-booted, video driver, and stop being so incredibly nitpicky while booting, when people might, you know, need to get online to solve the problem with the video driver in the first place?
You may have your soapbox back. Thanks for the loan!
@nixCraft If everything works fine for couple of days, you search internet and execute some other command. This will ensure that something breaks. You find solution and it goes on. ️ of life I guess!
@nixCraft bot my experience, I like you can have programs of your choice and they're free, arch based systems run well on older hdwr.
@nixCraft 14 You run down the rabbit hole and after a few months nothing that happens scares you.
@nixCraft I don't like this kind of meme. It's just not true, and I'm sure it stops some people from trying Linux because they really think it can't be stable. I've had more BSODs on Windows than crashes on Linux this year.
@nixCraft OpenSuse Tumbleweed.
I've been running this install for 2 years. Worst problem I've had is librewolf browser not preventing display from going to sleep.
And that was fixed in a couple days with an update.
If your Linux distro only boots on odd days, you should switch to another one.
@nixCraft
Funnily enough I experienced the first five steps just this week.
@nixCraft Pretty much. Every so often when I boot up my laptop both the mouse and keyboard don’t work. After rebooting it works fine again. I suspect an issue with the out-of-tree OpenRazer driver but I’m way too lazy to do anything about it
I’ve had a few issues here and there because being on Arch is sometimes like being the canary in the coal mine, though they’re usually fixed in a reasonable amount of time. Restore snapshot, blacklist those packages and go on with my day.
@nixCraft That never happened to me before?
And I already used LFS, Arch and Gentoo.
@nixCraft This sounds like a Ubuntu commercial (I'll show myself out)