Recently I had a hiccup with my main SSD drive. I have a dual boot Win/Kubuntu setup. Linux was crashing hard and Windows was giving me blue screens. After I resolved the issue (cooling/loose connection, idk) my Linux was doing fine, but Windows was giving me blue screens. I think it was doing an update when it crashed.
After a couple of hours messing with my recovery USB and booting in safe mode, I was able to fix the bad update and reboot normally.
I tried to open Firefox and it couldn’t find the executable. Looking into the Program Files Mozilla folder, I found the .exe files had been renamed to .exe.sig???
Then looking for the Edge browser, I suddenly found out that Microsoft Copilot AI had been installed!?!?!?!?!?!?
What the actual fuck???
I never wanted that trash on my PC! That’s one of the reasons out of the many that I didn’t want to use Windows 11.
And it’s a weird fucking coincidence that Firefox was fucked. I couldn’t even rename the files to .exe because they wouldn’t execute. Looks like they were encrypted or some shit? What the fuck is Microsoft pulling?
It’s a happy coincidence because you know what? I’ve been thinking about going full Linux install since all my games and Windows applications work with Steam, Proton and Bottles now.
I really don’t see any fucking reason to keep using Windows. Fuck this shit and fuck Microsoft.
Edit: Oh and that’s on top of all the other bullshit like forcing users to create a MS account to install Windows 10 now and having to jump through hoops to have an offline installation. And also defaulting to having all your user folder documents into their fucking One Drive cloud.
I’m done.
Microshit is minting more new linux enjoyers than any linux shill campaign ever could.
Thank you Satya the creep, your weird behaviors are driving linux growth!
Pro tip, LLMs are an amazing resource for Linux, if you got a modern GPU, they run decently locally. 24gb you can run GPT3.5 level.
Careful what commands you putting in though, i deff lost files by overriding directories. Don’t want you rage switching back to microshit
Brother, I’ve been using Linux for 24 years. 😎
It was nearly my daily driver for several of those years, especially in college.
I really liked Windows 10 when it came out and I’ve enjoyed using it until it became enshitified.
I’ve been using Linux on the daily for the past couple months and haven’t even noticed. I’ve been blown away by the progress in Wine and Proton and Bottles.
The thing holding me back is multi monitor support. It’s just atrocious on Linux (and has been for a long time). I have issues with:
- can’t duplicate screens (“not supported” huh?),
- random screen not detected,
- broken layout when screen changed,
- flickering and constant layout changes
Not sure if anyone has tips? NVIDIA and Intel displays, scarred to even try VR.
NVIDIA
That’s your problem right there. So often, when somebody says “I have a problem with Linux”, they mention NVIDIA. Sir/Madam, you have a problem with NVIDIA. Those fucks have been a thorn in the backside for more than a decade. As the creator of linux said “single worst company they’ve dealt with”.
Tips… uh… in rising order of monetary cost
- no cost: install a distro that might have support for downloading the right proprietary drivers (linux mint, Pop!OS, ubuntu, bazzite? nobara?)
- no cost: try to install the proprietary drivers yourself
- variable cost: get a geeky friend to try and fix it for you, compensate with a beer, meal, or vacation depending on how annoying it was
- buy an AMD GPU
For temporal cost, reverse the order.
system files getting corrupted under linux is way harder to fix than on windows… most distros do not even have a tool to check for integrity/existance of all the necessary base system package files.
Not sure what you’re on about, most package managers have a literal database of most package manager installed files. Debian and derivatives have dpkg --verify or debsums to verify the files, arch has paccheck, I’m sure other distros have something similar. And fixing them is just a matter of reinstalling the package, which you can do from a chroot if the system won’t boot.
Or you can just run your system on a checksumming FS like btrfs which will instantly tell you when a file goes bad.
If you are expecting stuff to never go wrong and software to never be updated in a way you disagree with on Linux then you’re in for disappointment.
Remember the KDE kidney bean? What about Gnome’s idiotic hamburger menus?
They are expecting linux to be honest. If a change is made there likely will be open documentation and discussion about it.i
I really dont think the OP is making a point about buggy software, they even repaired their windows boot after fixing the linux one, despite not needing the windows one.
We dont want software that is deceptive and antagonistic, and tries to steal whatever it can by calling it free.
They are expecting linux to be honest. If a change is made there likely will be open documentation and discussion about it.i
I really dont think the OP is making a point about buggy software, they even repaired their windows boot after fixing the linux one, despite not needing the windows one.
We dont want software that is deceptive and antagonistic, and tries to steal whatever it can by calling it free.
Were you using an antivirus program on Windows?
Edit: for the benefit of people downvoting this question: missing executables sounds like the behavior of an overzealous antivirus. It’s a relevant question to ruling out what may have caused the issue.
