I dunno. As a supporter of Asahi from the week the Patreon was launched, I’m pretty bummed that the lead dev got disheartened and dropped off. Kernel devs protecting fiefdoms (by blocking Rust adoption) do not a happy user make (for me).
It beats the alternative of Microsoft’s support forums where thousands comment for weeks straight INCLUDING paid Indian “representatives” who ask for user diagnostic tool output, copy/pasting the same reply eleventeen thousand times a day, on a post from 8 years ago BUT not a single person has ever posted their solution EXCEPT “I reinstalled Windows.”
have you tried running sfc /scannow ?
oh, it succeeded? uh, run dism /online anway, that should work
This was such a frustrating experience. I could probably count on one hand how many times I found a useful solution that wasn’t just copy paste
I love it when old crusty maintainers obstruct the progress of memory safe (read: Rust) code in the Linux Kernel!!!
It’s like going to a restaurant for a particular atmosphere. Just another Tuesday here. Eat your meal and move along.
“Ah yes, I survived the great systemd/init war…”
This is the way. “I just use Linux” is what I always say.
I’m considered tech support for my team at work, their always saying things like “well you’re the Linux guy so you know how this stuff works”. And then I have to explain “I just use Linux, I don’t write the code, plus these are windows machines so it’s completely different issues, and lastly I just type the problem into Google read the results and then tell you what I read”
Them: well you are still tech support because I don’t know how to do that.
Me: wait you don’t know how to type into Google…no you know what fine, I’m tech support, tell management so I can get a raise.
Hi, former tech support (now cybersecurity) here. You /are/ tier one tech support. You handle it pretty much how they do, knowledge base documents and searching for solutions online. If things get really bad they might poke around directly and see if they can find a root cause before they escalate.
That doesn’t mean they can demand you do anything, but it does mean you shouldn’t underestimate yourself :)
Hey thanks. I had always heard the joke that the majority of tech support was knowing how to phrase Google searches, but thought it was a joke…I get the sense it’s more a funny fact.
Funny enough, I’ve done the poking around bit too, both in person and more commonly now remotely. And yeah nobody has demanded anything… so far, lol. If I’m busy, or just have no clue what they’re talking about, I just say that to them and tell them to call our outsourced help desk. So far everyone just drops their head and accepts my answer then makes the call and spends the next 2 to 3 hours deciding if they really need this job.
I’ve been liking mint coming over as a long time windows user.
You’ve made an enemy for life!
What’s great about the drama is you can just ignore it and everything still works.
what do you mean stability? i want hyprcursor on my Linux mint! :(
More like the reverse in my experience. Users fight each over the most petty things
I think it’s mostly the other way around. The developers are chill while the user base frothing with tribalism
I think the tribalism is mostly in jest. I’ve never actually seen two Linux users seriously fighting over their preferred distro or init system or whatever.
Agreed also most of that i think comes from people thinking X is my preference but it comes out X is the best period with the “for me” being implied but not heard by the other party.
It’s both.
Christoph Hellwig, a kernel contributor, and a bunch of anti-Rust fossils, were sabotaging Rust-for-Linux projects for using their C APIs for months until Torvalds intervened, and have been actively hostile and abusive against R4L contributors until they left the project. Summary by Aussie Linux Man.
XLibre, headed by a… shall we say, interesting figure, has attracted a rabid fanbase who are frothing at the mouth and calling Wayland woke DEI garbage that will destroy Linux. The first day of the git repo saw threats of gun violence, the antisemitic (((triple parenthesis))) dog whistle, openly transphobic statements by non-developers, and the owner’s commitment to allow all of that under the banner of being “non-political”. More context here, in the comments.
XLibre, headed by a… shall we say, interesting figure
Still better than IBM/Redhat, tbh
Me following the recent bcachefs drama
which is so upsetting because dear FUCK does FOSS need a modern FS
I don’t get it, what’s wrong with btrfs? It’s working great for Synology, OpenSuse uses it too
it seems to have the reputation of not being the most reliable FS out there, apparently even causing data loss in some instances. In my experience tho it’s been great, it’s snapshot feature has saved me whenever a new kernel would break my broadcom wifi chip
Most btrfs issues I’ve read of have actually been caused by hardware problems: bad RAM, raid-0 faulty disk
I did find a bug that probably only arch users had to deal with on the most latest kernel. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Log-Tree-Corruption-Fix
Better yet, what’s wrong with ext4 lol
It does, but it doesn’t look like Kent will get his shit together. He cannot accept that he might be in the wrong.
Fighting means that you care.
This is the other way around