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[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Basically, most of the points there fall into some of 3 categories:

  1. Your hardware is crap:
  • WiFi not working;
  • Nvidia failed;
  1. You ability to read/follow simple instructions is crap:
  • WiFi not working;
  • Messed up installation;
  • Nvidia failed;
  • No answer in the wiki;
  1. Lies/outdated:
  • Updater broke system;
  • Troubleshoot everything;
  • No answer in the wiki;
[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

About 3, idk what's going on with my system, but sometimes after a big yay update, the kde login fails (something about the plasma environment failing to boot or idk I have not debugged it correctly yet), then after a reboot systemd-boot fails to load it and the efi entry dissapears. I'm forced to arch-chroot and reinstall the bootctl. After doing so, sometimes I have to do it again and other times it logs correctly.

Again, not debugged it correctly but it's not like I did any kind of weird change to any config, just installed some flatpaks, some steam games, and lutris for League, which in the end is basically wine, and a yay update provoking this behaviour is pretty bad.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've personally encountered mentioned behavior with kde on both arch and kde neon, so I'm inclined to think it's their f-up. As for sd-boot, I'm not sure: I've used it on arch for a short while only, and then just ditched bootloaders altogether for efistub

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's not that big of a deal for me, but damn if this would not be a deal breaker for a regular user, and I ensure you that a regular user would install league and steam or something of the sort xD

Like, I'm a software engineer and arch-chrooting once in a while to launch some commands is nbd, but a regular office worker that hardly runs some commands once in a while in terminals, copied from (safe) random places? Yeah good luck I bet they would just either distro hop or format and reinstall windows.

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