I mean, really. I see this complaint all the time. And in 25+ years of Linux, I can think of maybe once or twice where I meased something up with dd way back in the day when that was the only tool.for certain jobs.

How are y'all managing to mess yourselves up?

I don't have strong feelings one way or the other regarding Flatpak. I am just trying to understand why everyone seems so deathly afraid their linux systems will break when I have literally had way more windows systems just randomly do that to me over the years. How is your lived experience so radically different than mine?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nvidia drivers.... So many times.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you never broke it, my first guess would be you never actually tried to do anything non-vanilla with it. You never tried to get multi-screen resolutions in the 10's or factional scaling in the early 20's. or tried to update an ATI or Nvidia graphics driver back when it was a binary blob every other kernel with it was a bomb waiting to go off.

And the whole "deathly afraid" is straight-up BS. Your tone is not appreciated. If you come back at me with more elitism, I'm just going to block you.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

So it is people running beta software at the kernel level?

Edit: I am not trying to be elitist - why would messing with X11 cause your system to be bricked? Come up in run level 3 and fix your issue in the terminal.... ?