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That's LTT in the bottom (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Linux applications often give you some descriptive error that you can paste into an internet search and usually find someone who had the same problem.

Windows applications just stop working and say "UNEXPECTED ERROR" or smth. Like thanks you literally didn't help at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    but once you’re used to it, you realize that info usually give you all the tools you need to fix your problem.

    That's the thing right? I'm very much a non-tech person. But Linux error messages are nice and informative to the point that, even if I don't personally know what the fuck they are saying --

    -- I can just copy them to my browser search bar. Oh look, someone else had the same issue. And someone who knew what they were talking about presented a solution. Nice, now I can get back to work!

    And even when I am forced to troubleshoot on my own, the error messages and terminal logs often give enough of a clue that I can trial-and-error my way into making shit work.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What... you don't like the smiley face and QR code that leads you to a dead link on a rando microsoft website? You sure you need more information other than "Critical Process Died"?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My cousin had an old Dell that had an HDD with that "optane" crap, you know a 16GB NVMe "cache" that allegedly did anything. I was going to pull that out, put in a proper NVMe drive, leave the old hard drive in there as additional space, and install Windows 10.

    There are apparently BIOS settings that need to be altered for this to work, and Windows would throw "UNEXPECTED ERROR 0x1C4B332AFE943CE2C4 or something to that effect and wouldn't finish installing. Mind you, you don't get a usable Windows environment, so you have to copy that long string of text by hand into another device to find...nothing. Nearly no results out there.

    After awhile of trying to get a functioning Windows install media (which is difficult to do from a Linux machine. Way to go burning that bridge, Microsoft) I eventually decided to put Mint on this thing, which also gave an error. This error read something like "Unable to install, probably because there's a problem with the NVMe storage settings, you may need to disable TLVRQ (or whatever the generic term for Optane was) and try again. See this page in the Wiki for more information." And it gave a link to that page, because of course we're booted into a fully functioning live environment with internet access and a web browser, and it also gave a QR code link to that same wiki page so you could view it on mobile.

    Microsoft isn't even trying anymore.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    Never ever buy combo shit. Remember the DVD reader/CD burner combo crap back in the day? They were good at neither reading or burning anything. Thank god the fully featured DVD burners went down in price and these things died.

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