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  • Vlyn@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world"It has to be Chromium"
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    2 years ago

    Good joke.

    You know what happens if a customer complains your website doesn’t work in Chrome? A bug ticket is raised, goes to a developer and they fix the “bug” so it works again.

    If the developer is good they’d also make sure their “fix” doesn’t break the website for Firefox and Safari. But there are plenty of developers who only test Chrome and call it a day.

    Chrome is the default browser nowadays, if it doesn’t work in Chrome you have a problem. The developer might blame Google, but the user and management won’t care.







  • Vlyn@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    Back in the day when the battery of my Samsung Galaxy S (The original one) went bad I bought a replacement off Amazon for 15 bucks or so. The new battery even had a higher capacity than the original one! Popped the cover off the back of the phone, old battery out, new in, cover back on, done. Phone was better than new afterwards.


  • But as OP said, they already failed several times. That’s like telling someone who nearly drowned in the shallow end of a pool to go jump into the ocean.

    See here:

    So what would be a good distro to look into for a novice and where should I look for a tutorial?

    For me it feels like they do want to learn, but aren’t comfortable yet as a day to day user. They want to use Linux, but struggle with commands and how to use it. Having a stable and easy to use system you can use each day without trouble would probably be a better start than telling them to fiddle with Arch. Give them an easy distro and when they want to learn more they can use the crappy old laptop and try to install Arch on there (while leaving their daily driver alone).

    I think I learned the most when using Ubuntu for school, 90% of it was easy and straight forward. 10% of it was hell, like back in the day getting HDMI or audio to work. But because the 90% were there I just dug in and spent a dozen hours to troubleshoot the rest.


  • I tried that after already having about 2 years experience with Ubuntu desktop and an Ubuntu server (but still mostly a Windows user). I’m also a software developer.

    And I failed to install Arch on a laptop the last time I tried it out. Ubuntu ran flawlessly, trying to go step by step through the Arch installation I hit a random error (at a step that was very straight forward and easy in the documentation) and got stuck. Messed around with it and at some point gave up.

    I mean that’s years ago, it probably works a lot better nowadays and especially on more modern hardware, but even so for someone new to Linux I’d never tell them to go with a do-it-yourself install. Slap Ubuntu on that bad boy, let them install a few packages, do a handful of terminal commands and they’ll get much farther. Instead of giving up three hours in because a random command (that they still don’t understand) is broken.





  • Vlyn@lemmy.mltotechsupport@lemmy.worldWhich part of my PC is failing?
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    2 years ago

    When it happens again open the task manager (might take a while), go to performance and look at your SSD. Is it at 100% disk usage?

    I had this problem a few times before and it’s annoying as hell. One time it was a Windows Store hiccup where it started to update in the background. One time Windows update. One time Nvidia Broadcast got stuck installing. And a lot of times I tried to play Apex Legends and EAC (Easy AntiCheat) scanned my entire drive for a few minutes…

    I’ve tried a ton of tweaks, but start with the following (use CMD as Admin):

    sfc /scannow → Scans for errors, will probably find some and fix them. Run again till no errors come up

    chkdsk /f /r C: → Full SSD scan for broken sectors. Will probably ask you to restart, the scan happens after restarting. This fixed a ton of issues with my Windows 11 installation, even though the SSD tests and SMART showed no issues