Amazing. Thanks.

Does any body have a link to that photo?

Maybe they are, in a way.

At least for Linux-Reaper:

Use Jack. Install the “Pulse Jack Module”, route Pulseaudio through Jack to simultaneously connect Reaper and everything else to the Jack System out. Always autostart Jack and use the Pulse Module “autoconnect” parameter as a startup script (QJackCtl helps here).

Should fix 1-3, 4 I’m not sure.

Well, that may be the case, but you made the claim that using a beginner-friendly distro solves all problems and I gave an anecdotal example of that not being the case. Macbooks have a substantial markt share, like it or not, and are subject to planned hardware obsolescense, so people will try to install.Linux at some point.

Besides of all, this was not purely a hardware issue. Else, no configuration would have worked out. There were differences in the default configs of the distributions that caused this erratic behavior and it was not just a pulseaudio/pipewire thing.

That’s not true.

I’ve also had a lot of success on most hardware, but the worst device I ever touched was a 2016 Macbook (one of the last with normal ports) and that thing was a total mess.

Arch: Video, no sound. Debian: Sound, no video. Ubuntu: Everything works, reboot, nothing works.

Probably heavily related to hardware, but still, very inconsistent. I was never able to find the actual issue after weeks.

The final somewhat working configuration was Debian+Liquorix for the video firmware.

So no, it’s not guaranteed.

Ok, I suppose I misunderstood your comment. I thought it was about the actual lead kernel developers and not all Linux-related devs in general and thought to myself “Well, Torvalds is a married man and most other maintainers I’ve ever seen didn’t look that out of the ordinary”.

Again, not to take away anything from anybody, but maybe that explains my surprise to that comment.

Name me one, please.

No meant as a transphobic remark, to clarify. Just curiosity.

Dude I love Placebo!

I wouldn’t say that viral videos are memes, they are viral videos. But their content can become a meme, which could be a quote from it or some kind of content shown in a different context.

E.g. the Area51 Naruto runner is a meme, but the report where he appears is not.

Question: Isn’t what you describe in the first paragraph the very definition of a meme?

I push my fingers into your…

I thought it was one of the original peepys at first.

What’s this from?

Well, the recovery argument really only checks out when there are recent restore points made and a recovery partition is present, which is not the case in every or even most Windows configs, otherwise you’re SOL anyway.

Often times even those failed on me when Windows had shat itself and told me it can’t fix the issue and needs a restore medium, on which I then manually had to /fixboot and /rebuildBCD from the console. That’s not any more feasible for the average user.

I think installing Linux is definitely a hurdle, but you could usually find someone or a shop to do it for you or help you.

Otherwise, with all the new random prompts and welcome screens in Windows, I think any Linux system will stay out of the users way much more and let them work on their stuff without distractions.

Sure, Linux troubleshooting is bad for the average user, but you can also get help with that and Windows forums are bloated with trash replies and not any better quality-wise (same with Android nowadays, unfortunately).

Real talk now, I know there are use-cases where Windows is mandatory unfortunately. Video editing and civil engineering/architecture are two good examples.

Maybe switching to Mac is an option, but whether that’s any better is debatable.

However, most people I know that suffer from these issues are in neither field of work and aren’t necessarily even hardcore gamers. Yet they don’t even want to try anything else.

I’ve also had some difficulties fully switching to Linux a decade ago, but nothing that couldn’t be solved or I couldn’t abstain from (e.g. modern games, back in the day).

All it takes is the will not to be bullied by a corporation at home every day.

Oh, now I understand. They were just missing a comma between “off” and “lemmy”, super sweet! :)

Technically, the title doesn’t say “first”, but yeah, kind of. :)

Super anecdotal, but I’ve seen a few instances of those in my time as sysadmin.

Whether it was just failed or malfunctioning updates, I can’t tell, but I’ve had to deal with Windows not starting correctly after automatic updates multiple times.

Then there was the whole bricked HP laptop story recently, where automatic updates just randomly killed a lot of systems. We have multiple HP laptops in the company, though none were affected, but I can’t say I wasn’t sweating a little bit those days.

Same here actually, I first saw those photos in a recent post a few days ago, just can’t remember which one, though.