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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinus Comparison
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    22 days ago

    Pop_OS put in a patch that required you to create a file /etc/apt/break-my-system and Debian added a flag instead.

    My point was if someone is going to blindly follow an instruction to type that, they’re just as likely to blindly follow an instruction to touch /etc/apt/break-my-system or an instruction to add --allow-remove-essential

    The Gnome software GUI, what the average user would use, didn’t allow it.

    KDE realized Discover would have allowed it (after a warning), so that was fixed


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    22 days ago

    The GUI wouldn’t let him break it, so he tried the command line.

    The command line required him to type, with punctuation “Yes, do as I say!” after a big warning.

    If an average user will do that, the “fix” of needing to create a file before being able to type “Yes, do as I say!” isn’t going to change anything









  • Maybe easier to another suggestion, you’re probably using a systemd based distros -

    journalctl -b -1 will show you the logs from the previous boot, so you could check that after resetting to see if anything was logged

    For some other ideas to narrow down where the issue is…

    If you’re stuck in the frozen state, you can Ctrl+alt+delete 7+ times quickly to tell systemd to try to restart the system. If this works, it means init was still able to process messages

    If that doesn’t work, you could enable Magic Sysrq Key (if disabled in your distro), and then use the key sequence REISUB to try to see if the kernel is still responding and can reset the system








  • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    2 months ago

    Microsoft released Windows Vista, which was absolute dogshit on every PC at the time it was released.

    This also just happened to be not long after Ubuntu was released, making it easier than ever to install Linux.

    Installed it, quickly found out everything was easier to configure and tinker with in Linux…

    Never saw a reason to go back. Used Windows 7 for a little bit, and it was better than Vista, but it still wasn’t anywhere near as easy to use as Linux