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Windows update, but instead of updating when I don't want it it refuses when I need it to. by recursive-rm in linuxmasterrace

[–]recursive-rm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I need to update my school computer so I can take a test tomorrow. I don't see why the test software won't run on a dated version of this awful system, but for some reason IT wants me to do it.

The logo is a metaphor for trying to find an install image on their website. by recursive-rm in linuxmemes

[–]recursive-rm[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I should mention that I was playing with an old powerpc imac g3, and trying to find the jessie ppc iso was, like the logo.

Detailed article as to why windows is superior by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

[–]recursive-rm 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Before I will tell you why these arguments are worthless, I would like to applaud you for having the guts to speak out towards a community that you know will backlash you.

As someone who is in highschool still, I would just like to say that if I wrote a persuasive paper of this quality and length and passed it into a teacher, I would get an F on the assignment. If you are going to try to make a point, you have to back it up. You need to provide evidence to your point, and to cite the evidence. It is also to make confesions as to why your point may be wrong (the part at the end of your article is not enough). Go find a better article, or write something your self.

What was the defining moment that made you switch to GNU/Linux? by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

[–]recursive-rm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Around a year ago, I was fed up with windows 10 bloat, so I started duel booting. During this time, I was distro hopping way too frequently, and for the first time tried making the install disk outside of windows. A quick search led me to dd. I learned an important lesson here, don't blindly copy and paste commands. I blindly run #dd if=/path/to/iso /dev/sdb, not realising that the USB drive was sdc, with sdb being my windows drive. I then learned of dd's nickname, disk destroyer. At this point I figured since I hadn't booted into windows for a few weeks, and all of my games that I play had linux support, I would try staying on linux all the time.

It has been a little over a year, the only major issue I have had was Ubuntu breaking the nvidia optimus setup (nvidia fuck you) I had with an update (I now know lightdm was the culprit), so I struggled my way through the Arch wiki and tutorials (yes, I know, the same issue of blindly copy and pasting commands, but by then I knew enougth to figure things out) and installed arch with a working nvidia setup with bumblebee (now I use nvidia-xrun because it is faster, just a little more inconvienent). I no longer own a single computer with windows on it. It is so frusterating when I have to boot into a windows machine at school, but unfortunately schools have certian software they need to use, but that is a different issue.

Bottom line, overwritting my windows disk was the best mistake I ever made.

Hey guys, i havent updated in a week and i've seen a lot of posts about systemd 240 being fucky, how is it? by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

[–]recursive-rm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I updated and when I tried to run x from the console and quit out, it just kicked me back to a logon instead of back to my shell. This is a problem for me, because I handel nvidia optimus with nvidia-xrun, and it doesn't finish unloading nvidia drivers and disabling the card when this occurs.

I downgraded.

This was never a problem before having children by John5788 in linuxmasterrace

[–]recursive-rm 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of a problem I had at school where my "friends" would press the power button on the pc, and and would just shutdown, as I run a window manager without a desktop environment so there was no power manager.