Somehow the EFI partition doesn’t mount and it’s impossible to troubleshoot via phone, she asked me to put back the old system 😞

  • Tehhund@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Loool, all the people who are trying to help you troubleshoot are 1) probably correct and 2) completely missing the point. I have a Windows desktop, a Mac, and a Linux desktop at home and this kind of shit only happens on Linux these days.

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      2 days ago

      You’re right, this never happens on windows. It’s so robust no one ever complains

      /s

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        People complain about all the invasive controlling bullshit Windows does. I haven’t seen any kind of failure to boot issue with windows in a long time and I work in IT. Last thing I really remember being common in our organization was bitlocker getting triggered and people having to call in to get the key to unlock it, and that was back in the windows 7 days.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      How am I the only one who does have annoying issues like this on Windows (except that Windows only gives a useless error code at most) while Linux has failed to boot a total of once (without me explicitly changing nvidia drivers).

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        22 hours ago

        You aren’t. My bf has constant problems with Windows that he barely knows how to diagnose (not that he isn’t knowledgeable about computers, the problems are just…opaque.) He doesn’t seem to perceive them as being related to Windows, though. I think that might be what’s going on with a lot of people.

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        System breaking errors that doesn’t allow you to even login?

        Windows have lots of issues, but it’s been a while since I found those system breaking issues to be somehow common.

        For all their shit, credit myst be given when credit is due. And windows it’s become a really robust systems against layer 8 issues. Even powering off middle update is kind of easy to recover (I have to solve this issue for a user recently).

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      My MacBook is getting very long in the tooth and the updates via OCLP are working in creating a system that is painfully slow to use. I’ve been tinkering with various Linux distros for 20 years and the thought of having one as my only daily driver does not sound appealing. I really don’t want to drop the money on a new laptop but I need something to work without constantly troubleshooting.

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        I have Linux running on 6 different MacBooks (2009 - 2021). They were all EndeavourOS at first though some are Chimera Linux now.

        They run great. Even the 2009 really.

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      Literally happened updating just yesterday so I went to an older boot entry. The Matrix channel blamed my hardware, but the older revision boots just fine

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        2 days ago

        Right but you see it never happened to that person so it means it’s like that for everybody else. Clearly you are wrong. /s