Everyone is an atheist until they do kernel/full system update on their daily driver machine
I still love the particular way that Garuda configures some things from the get go. I always knew it was Arch based and might break eventually. What I didn't expect was the stupid power button deciding that it doesn't want to work anymore.
pacman -Syu hangs after updating kernel but before mkinitcpio.
Jesus, take the wheel.
I just have a script that repeats the "install-kernel" command and the "bootctl install" one that I run after every big update. It should be fine without them, right? Too many times the kernel one fails in the pacman update chain and I've had to chroot from a live USB too many times to do the bootctl install to put the correct bootloaders in the efi partition to skip the manual bootclt install from my actual PC after updates.
Just in case. It takes 2 seconds vs searching the pendrive, loading, typing in an European keyboard when the live USB asumes it's american, searching the chroot command on my phone... All of this when I just want to relax. Weird stuff I know.
Me updating my Arch install in the morning at school (there's faster connection):
But, with current install I finally started writing logs of all manual changes I make (config updates, created symlinks outside home dir, package installations, etc...). I'll finally know what I did instead of trying to guess what weird thing I did 2 years ago.
True. I started to pray to GabeN recently too.
Let us pray that he will be succeeded by a worthy descendant. At least we can always find refuge in BSD - it has not yet started to ensh*tify as I've heard
chuckles in immutable distribution
Debian fans talking about how "rock stable" it is after I smash their computer with a rock:
Power button broke: Kalm
(True story: too bad it happened 2 days before finals)
I wish laptops were a practical thing when I was in school. I had a PDA and it was useless.
Mine was actually somewhat useful. (I was weird and used a windows mobile phone in HS because it was an upgrade over my nokia.)
Also the replacement power button broke after like two uses.
Last month I was doing some normal computer maintenance, and when I had gotten everything set up I found the computer wouldnt turn on. Took me a full week to diagnose the problem: it wasn't plugged into the wall.
These things can be so funny sometimes. My old PC from high school decided to die the exact day when I bought my new laptop. Mf won't boot up no matter what I did. Had to connect that hard drive to another machine to recover some data. Now I keep backups of everything.
Well if it's a software issue you can just hold it down to force cut power.
Not software. Actual hardware hardware button.
Oh i assumed it was like most modern systems that a short press sends a shutdown command and a long press just cuts power
nvidia user moment
i plan using garuda. can i save the backups on a sata hdd to even get saved if my m.2 drive with garuda on it corrupts and everything breaks on software level?
I am not entirely sure what you are saying here (English as a second language?), but here is a good overview:
https://wiki.garudalinux.org/en/restoring-snapshots
Remember that most of the Arch Linux wiki also applies.
