Linux can and has destroyed hardware
-It also almost had me toss a perfectly good 4TB external drive, and a Bluetooth. (Luckily I checked them on Windows).
"Matthew says with about 20 lines of code on Windows, you can cause the same havoc. He points out that mounting EFI variables as read-only could break some user-space applications and isn't the solution to the problem."
When you tack on what it needs to be a desktop OS, you're tacking on vulnerabilities. Take a point release distro like Debian, and you end up with more out of date packages which adds to vulnerabilities. Also, a web search will reveal decades old issues with Linux used as a server. -It's not bulletproof, we just don't hear about it like we don't hear about Linux much IRL, and it's something evangelists like to suppress.
I happened across a mention of a BIOS option that no one else - not the official documentation nor the 99.9% of other forum posters I read - bothered to mention: I needed to switch my hard drive setting from IDE to AHCI.
I used search on the guide here for "AHCI":
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#1-overview
-Not found on those pages.
On reddit, it will eventually break the user experience. (page loading times / errors). Does this site handle the database differently?
The Youtubers generally know not to sink to the community level of toxicity, but they go overboard on positivity and lose credibility.
I bet Jim Jones said something similar once. It's not like the 'hobby' doesn't have a belief system using faith attached.
Yes, and that's the FUNNY part about it! Lennart went against the UNIX philosophy and is hated for it, but so did Linus Torvalds with the monolithic kernel, and Richard Stallman with Emacs.
I remember using a script as a solution, so I'd be a gonner!
I'm ok with them simply making a point or correcting errors.
Not sure what to do about the down-doots because I'd like this to be more welcoming to critics (or the sub topic). I was never a fan of the Karma system. People who can't argue a point, or simply want to avoid karma trashing themselves abuse it. I practically gave up on reddit alternatives because they all adopted the same major problem with reddit.
I'm trying to deter people from using promotional phraises like 'I use Arch, btw'. I know it was probably sarcasm, but it can throw me off, cause inconsistency, and I'm not good at remembering names. -Did recognize yours (this time), thanks for your contributions!
OP seemed kinda harsh on devs considering 'free', but we're also talking about something set up as opposition that isn't really fair competition in a capitalist market. -Rather it kills real competition. Communism fails due to no incentive.
I assumed EndeavourOS.
Linux Almost KILLED MY SSD...(youtube)