I was using X and Y to refer to Windows/Linux.

I do currently dual boot, using UEFI + grub2 (and also macos bootloader+asahi linux), and yes, it definitely is a personal disdain. The various bootloaders themselves don’t really change the experience that much its that you have to choose your OS during the boot process that cause the UX friction.

It may be the same as a user login screen, but it doesn’t take the place of one. So you press the on button -> wait a bit -> choose your OS -> wait a bit more -> choose your user -> wait a bit more. That extra step in there just really gets on your nerves, especially if you just want to turn on the PC and get on with something. If there was a way to set the boot choice before pressing the on button (like a physical toggle switch or something), that would be slightly better, but afaik, that doesn’t exist.

I’m not telling you to shut up, but I would suggest caution, it only takes one bad experience to irreparably damage your families opinion of linux, sometimes its better to let them come to you when their ready. But USB to demo the experience is definitely a good way to go about it. But when they are ready, I’d go all in on the distro of choice and spend some time with them to iron out all the issues. A little hand holding early on will save you a lot of headache later.

People want to turn on their computer and have the OS boot and get out of the way. Adding a bootloader in between is just annoying. You either default it to autoboot X, and then find it frustrating that you need Y, or you set it to always pester you to choose, which is annoying in of itself. The UX experience really hasn’t improved ever and kinda can’t.

I’ve been dual booting since fedora 4, and whether it’s stock GRUB, or one of the flavours of the month GUI boot loaders, it’s the same lowsy experience. I can live with it, but I wouldn’t dare inflict it on a new user.

UEFI has somewhat changed it, as I now just default boot to Linux, but from Linux can run a script to set it to boot to Windows on next boot, and then reboot, but it’s still pretty gross to use.

USB boot is okay, but perhaps use a USB SSD, standard USBs can be very slow which will give a poor user experience. I also don’t think distro is that critical, as long as you stick to the mainstream ones. Make sure it’s one that you know well, as realistically, your gonna end up being called for support.

I can only imagine how their UX is declining day over day.

They are probably just fine. Most people are perfectly happy with Windows, we are a minority.

That said, don’t dual boot for noobs. It’s a pointless exercise in additional complexity. If you default it to Windows, they’ll never leave Windows. If you default it to Linux, they’ll be forever frustrated that it booted to the wrong OS.

Install Linux on a new disk, insert it on their box, and if they hate it and ask for Windows back, give it back. Forcing them into Linux land will just make them resent it.

Ah, I thought the timeline between the events and the slowdown were a lot closer, and that unplugging the monitor just gave it enough time to cool down.

The monitor part is definitely odd, is it a particularly high res/Hz monitor?

Otherwise I’m also leaning towards excessive swapping being the culprit, but that doesn’t explain the monitor part.

Heat? Could be overheating and throttling?

Been a while since I’ve seen a bluescreen period. 10 and 11, for all their faults, have been pretty stable on that front. Crowdstrike did spoil a very good run.

Join your countries instance? I’m fairly sure the people in Aussie.zone aren’t American. You could also put your flag in your display name.

That isn’t exclusively true. Programs can capture SIGTERM and ignore it, or do as they please, SIGKILL is non-negotiable though.

Windows does have an equivalent to SIGKILL as well, in taskkill /F.

r/rust is the same, so much vibe garbage :(

All of the vampire’s hanging out in highschools.

Annoyingly, disk discovery. It refused to use my disks, claiming they didn’t have serial numbers. I could see the serial numbers in the frontend and the console, but their middleware just hated them.

I am using a USB multi-disk drive thing, which didn’t work properly on an old kernel, but it should have been fine with the new kernel.

I reported the bug, which didn’t really get addressed, and then had to build my array using the command line tools (which aren’t documented).

I dunno about recommending FreeNAS (Known as truenas now). It is basically an appliance OS, and unless you are using enterprise level hardware, they want nothing to do with you.

I’m currently using it, but it was a very unpleasant experience setting it up.

At least in Australia, those require a firearms licence, whereas regular bows don’t.

And arguably both are unwieldy, you can’t quick reload a crossbow.

Archery is cheap. A hunting bow kit can be had for a few hundred dollars, and arrows are renewable.

Did the image fail to upload? Same with your other post?

You’re not wrong, but the only difference (and time will tell if its sufficient), is that they intentionally and explicitly use the free tier for advertisement, so killing that kills their reputation overnight.

But if all else fails and they try to enshitify, their apps are BSD licenced on github, and headscale is adequate, so the free tier would just shift to headscale and carry on.

Discord and IPO is like the knight running at the castle clip from Monty Python.

Constantly coming soon, but not arriving.

https://youtu.be/dnok2txSzVo

Thank you [Honorary] Pedantry :D. “ad” just felt wrong somehow, but you are correct. I have fixed it, sorry for the pain and suffering I caused you :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa

Honestly, this might be good for the ad industry. Force them to get to the point quicker. Alternatively, we could see a return of epilepsy inducing flashing ads…

I like the idea of IRL billboard ads being “dismissable”. If the ad is too obnoxious, someone gets to press a button and wipe the billboard.