The best part is when Windows tries to reboot, but the Dell laptop decides that it won’t have any of that and crashes, so you come back from your break you find yourself in the BIOS and the update didn’t install after all.
Dell, not even once.
You think that’s bad until a HP laptop deletes your boot entries because you’ve used an external drive to boot up once and it doesn’t provide you a way to add them back from within UEFI settings so you just have to manually navigate to the correct .efi file and then add the boot entries back from within OS but oh wait you need to come back to UEFI to put them into correct order.
Also applicable if you forgot to unlock DriveLock before going into UEFI.
I’ve had that happen to me, too, and I think it’s lying to us. Windows doesn’t need to reboot, it needs to do some cleanup work and then reboot. Only it doesn’t tell us that.
Apparently it’s really hard to get a progress bar right. It’s just kinda guessing, but some can be worse than others if coded carelessly, from what I’m reading.
While it’s true that’s a progess bar is guessing (since it doesn’t know what would take more time in your computer). It should still finish when at 100%
This. The guessing part comes from the time it takes to do the tasks, but you know the number of tasks. So a progress bar should only reach 100% when all the tasks are completed.
For example, you might have a big process that performs 3 other small tasks and then finishes. You could reasonably assume that each small task is 33% of the big process, so after the first finishes you get 33% progress, then 66% after the second and 100% after the third. When the bar reaches 100%, the third task has finished, so your process has finished too.
What you don’t know is how much time each small task takes, so if the first task needs 20 seconds and the following tasks take just 5, you’ll spend 2/3 of the time on the first 33% of the progress bar, and then the remaining 66% gets done in 1/3 of the time.
Last week, I tried to install a BIOS update on my work laptop, but the UI didn’t give me feedback, so I thought, maybe they locked down BIOS updates or something. I didn’t actually try very hard and forgot about it.
This week, Monday morning, I couldn’t log into my laptop anymore, for unrelated reasons apparently.
Only real thing I could try was a reboot. That would decide, if I had to go to the office to get support.
So, I trigger the reboot and a wild BIOS update appears. Step 1/6, 0%, let’s fucking go.
And yeah, that shit took a while. I was scrolling through Lemmy or something on my phone, and saw out of the corner of my eye that it had reached 100%, then power cycled.
Finally, I thought. Nope. Step 2/6, 0%. Fuck me.
It took about half an hour in total, but I had never done a BIOS update on this laptop, and the last BIOS update on my previous work laptop ended up frying the hard drive, unrecoverably. So, that half hour felt like an eternity.
Thankfully, it eventually rebooted and everything worked, including the login.
101% complete
Kann ich Sie für unseren Herrn und Erlöser, Linux, begeistern?
In Mint: Externen Monitor anschließen geht nur, nachdem man Treiber nachinstalliert hat. Zwischen externem Monitor und internem ist eine Lücke von geschätzt 800 Pixeln. Skalierung für jeden Bildschirm separat einstellen, geht gar nicht. Externe Lautsprecher brummen auf voller Lautstärke, wenn kein Ton abgespielt wird, was ich bisher nur nach Login und vor Logout reparieren konnte.
Ubuntu: WLAN geht nicht
Manjaro: Hier sind 500 Paket-Updates, finde selbst raus, wie du die Konflikte reparierst.
Solange so ein Krempel nicht „einfach funktioniert“, ist Linux kein Herr und Erlöser.
Also mein Bogen funktioniert einfach. Nach ein bisschen Konfiguration ist es auch Benutzer Tauglich. Und das dauert nicht mal länger, als Fenster ein zu richten und den unnötigen Krempel runter zu schmeißen. Andere wert geschätzte Nutzer wie @Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org werden dir dabei helfen.
Bazzite: funktioniert einfach
Hatte mal Ubuntu probiert und war nicht Fan. Bin jetzt seit ein paar Monaten mit bazzite unterwegs und musste nur ein Mal das Terminal öffnen, weil die einen Fehler mit dem Schlüssel zur Authentifizierung der OS Versionen gemacht hatten und neue Updates einen anderen Schlüssel hatten oder so. Bin echt erstaunt, wie gut alles läuft.