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    Comment on a YT video about Windows on ARM (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Installing OS, 10 years ago:

    Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

    Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

    Installing OS today:

    Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

    Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

    Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    This was one of the main reasons I made the switch.

    when I was using win10/11 for whatever reason once or twice a year, always at least once a year, the wifi on my laptop would just working. just wouldn't connect to anything. sometimes doing a hardreset would work but usually it wouldn't. even uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers did nothing. Nope Windows would just randomly decide that this thing isn't worth it's salt and wouldn't acknowledge it's existance. the ONLY fix was to reinstall the OS. It's not like I was doing anything, just Windows deciding it didn't want to work.

    Now on Linux everything just works. if I have issues it's because of my own doing and they're easy to work cause I know what I did wrong. worse comes to worse I got auto backups and just need to reinstall which takes all of like 5min. Or I can use it as an excuse to try another distro.

    That's my biggest issue, I'm just so addicted to tweaking the thing now that it's a dangerous rabbit hole to go down cause I know i'll end up breaking something. It's fun though. Just constantly tweaking and adjusting to get it "just right".

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

    I went through that phase too! The tweak times are so much fun and breaking things is a good way to learn.

    Now I am in a sane defaults mode. Where I just want everything to work well. Pop on so far has been rock solid. I actually have been trying to not touch the terminal to see how that feels as a user. In been 4 months and so far it hasn't been a problem.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    May I recommend a versioning or snapshot capable filesystem like BTRFS? It lets me tweak and make mistakes with little fear.

    With that said, always keep proper backups of data you care about.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    yeah that's what I'm using. I have snapshots set up to automatically be taken. at first it wasn't because I didn't realize the cronie service wasn't enabled, but now it's all good. takes a snapshot monthly, 3 times daily, and at boot.