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Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome? (lemmy.world)
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[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

I'd literally rather risk losing everything to a blue screen than use something arcane, deliberately difficult to use, unnecessarily complicated and bereft of any interesting or useful programs.

Linux is great for niche scenarios, like software development, but horrible for most daily use and any critic who pretends otherwise is ignorant or lying.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Windows is making it more a'd more annoying to keep using it and Linux is becoming more and more user friendly

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

I used to dual-boot and use my Win10 for gaming.

But in the middle of Vermintide 2 I kept getting BAD BSoDs seemingly at random! None of the typical steps seemed to help. Probably something NVIDIA related I dunno.

I was gonna "refresh this system" and all Windows told me after "We're getting this ready." was: "Can't. Dunno why. Sorry."

But hey, switching over to my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install made the game play really smooth, and no crashes! And soon, I discovered it ran all my other games just fine or even better as well!

I haven't touched that Win10 install in ages, and will probably drop it in favor of VMing it really soon.

The only real holdout is that my VR headset is WMR. That really sucks. :(

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

Reminds me of this ad https://youtu.be/DIABO7_BTVc

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 20 points 18 hours ago

Sure, because Linux never has hardware crashes ...

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 54 minutes ago

I have crashed Linux before. On a Raspberry Pi. I was fucking around with some electronics on a breadboard, hooking them up to the GPIO pins while the thing is running like a dunce, and a male jumper wire connected to Vcc got away from me and dragged across the circuit board near the SoC.

It came back up after I power cycled the board. I've otherwise never actually crashed Linux. I've crashed software running on Linux, sure, but I've never seen a kernel panic in 10 years of penguin flavored computing.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 14 hours ago

I currently have a memory or CPU issues (I have not investigated), which causes my windows install to lag out for a second, but my Linux install just completely crashes the entire system

[-] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

No hesitation, pure feedback

[-] Laser@feddit.org 8 points 16 hours ago

Blue screens were much more common back in the day, I guess nowadays they're equally stable. Windows current issues are the deliberate choices Microsoft makes

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

For a while, Linux Mint was significantly less stable than Windows 10 on my previous laptop. Worse, sometimes the system crash would freeze *everything, where it wouldn't even let me do the CTRL ALT F1 to get a basic shell, so the only solution was a full power off/on

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

That is painful. It'll work SO WELL on a bunch of systems but sometimes someone has a particular config that'll throw monkey-wrenches all over. It always feels like the most rotten luck being on the other end of that huh? :(

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago

Windows user here. I don't have a fear of BSODs.

On the other hand, I have "Linux users are elitist jerks" syndrome, which stops me from switching to Linux, due to a fear of Linux users might be elitist jerks. This can be only cured by massive improvements to the Linux community, and a debugger that has an actual GUI for Linux (no, I don't care about whatever cute little script you've written for GDB for a semi-automated testsuite for command line utility that converts one obscure format into another).

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

"Linux users are elitist jerks"

Elitist jerks are elitist jerks. Ever talked to a stuck-up Windows I.T admin? The constant scoffing is unreal.

What about people rich (or financially goofy) enough to obsess with Apple products?

I think most community people regardless of OS just wanna be helpful and enthusiastic. (I like the word "enthusiast" haha) You'll always find elitists around topics that involve learning skills and mastery.

I dunno, I'm just happy sometimes people care here when I enthusiastically ramble to them about all their Linux-y choices they can solve problems with lol. We're not all like that.

Jerks just stick out more. Don't let them tint your opinion of an entire community. I managed to even enjoy ranked League of Legends for a short while because I didn't assume everyone was out to attack my ego with theirs.

Hope you have an awesome one and let us know if we can help you with anything. :)

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[-] Waffle@infosec.pub 4 points 14 hours ago

This is what got me to switch to Linux (arch btw). I was getting blue/green screens 1-2x a week and it almost always ruined a gaming experience.

Now I can bork my system during an update, but at least I can game smoothly. My system hasn't crashed once while in the middle of something (I have, however, fucked up my system post update and without a Time shift backup ready to go which merited a full reinstall - but it's been a good learning experience overall)

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

I cannot remember the last time I had a blue screen

[-] mako@lemmy.today -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I cannot remember the last time I personally experienced racism so it must not be a real problem.

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

only on lemmy will you see someone compare windows to racism

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 48 minutes ago

Didn't Microsoft fire employees who held a vigil for Palestinians?

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

don't know. but that's neither here nor there. we're talking about computers here.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah a corporation punishing its employees for expressing opinions on ethnic cleansings has no bearing on whether their product can be equated to racism, because software.

Also, remember when the Kinect didn't work on black people?

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Linux Syndrome:

When nobody asked but somehow the solution is Linux.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

If you browse linux communities long enough, you eventually start seeing openbsd users who condescendingly speak about linux the same way some linux users speak about windows lol. It's turtles all the way down!

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

But this isn't a linux community though, it is a meme community.

The linuxmemes are on a different community.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

wait till u hear what the templeos people have to say about openbsd

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Linux will have an equialvent of BSoD soon. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-QR-Codes

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 16 hours ago

I've had a black screen of death on Mint. All I was trying to do was crop a video on kdenlive. It black screened on me and somehow even messed up the boot menu so that my Mint was showing up as just Ubuntu. I went straight back to Shotcut after that. I really wanted to switch from Windows to Linux, but so far, Linux, or at least Mint, really hates me. Up till recently, I was still using Mint for my music storage, but it has trouble even moving files onto my phone now. I've pretty much given up.

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago

if want to diagnose black screen, can use sudo journalctl -S "TIME" to see journal since TIME ("X min ago", timestamp, etc.). may have message on error.

can try syncthing to move file to/from phone

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

99 percent of the time I've had to deal with a bsod in Windows, it was a bad driver (Intel controllerless Wi-Fi, for one) or a software issue (Malwarebytes Premium or Kaspersky + insert networking app here). Sometimes it's a hardware problem (stupid ASUS laptops with builtin RAM), and rarely, a bad disk clone (gotta do that bsdboot)

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I'm a Linux user, and I have "X11 decides to lock up the entire system irrecoverably for no reason" syndrome. Should probably look into wayland...

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 44 minutes ago

X does fall over sometimes. Since I've been on Fedora KDE running Wayland, I've had a couple "you're now in recovery mode" moments as well.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago

NGL, some distros will give you the anxiety that the next update will brick your OS as well

[-] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Laughing in NixOS...

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[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Since when did the Blue Screen concept change from being an actual error screen to simply the Windows update screen?

I'm guessing shortly after Windows began implementing aforementioned update screen?

This is the first I've heard it referred to as the Blue Screen.

For reference: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

I think the whole thing might be a joke? ๐Ÿ˜€

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

I haven't seen a blue screen in years.

Yes, Linux Preachers, I am a Windows user.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

I've seen one recently, when I kicked my computer by an accident.

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