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Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome? (lemmy.world)

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days 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).

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago

Sure, because Linux never has hardware crashes ...

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

No hesitation, pure feedback

[-] Laser@feddit.org 7 points 2 days 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

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day 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.

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[-] Shard@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Linux Syndrome:

When nobody asked but somehow the solution is Linux.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days 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!

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

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

The linuxmemes are on a different community.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago

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

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Well I updated my computer and my audio stopped working; to the logs! Lol I love Linux, but find myself asking "what now?" much more frequently with it..

With windows it is more like "wtf is this new ad on my start menu?" Or "how can I opt out of all these features no one ever asked for?"

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

One time an update broke audio, and I spent like 15 minutes digging around in pipewire logs and weird config parameters before I realized that I was literally just muted lol. Pulseaudio has irrevocably conditioned me to assume that whenever there is no audio, it must be some obscure bizzare weird issue instead of something simple

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[-] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago

Sigh… c/linuxmemes continues to leak

[-] Daveyborn@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Can't search for converts in a circle jerk.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Won't convert people with circle jerk arguments either.

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days 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.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 43 points 3 days ago

Other cures include literally just restarting your PC once a month so it can install updates.

[-] Zorsith 13 points 3 days ago

Or disabling the stupid power settings that mean a shutdown isn't a shutdown, and turning your computer off when not in use

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago

It's hilarious that so many issues in Windows can be fixed with a restart but then they made it not actually restart when turned off and on again.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

I haven't seen a blue screen in years.

Yes, Linux Preachers, I am a Windows user.

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[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days ago

Linux machines don't crash unexpectedly, because if they do, it's your fault for configuring it wrong and you should have expected it.

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago

Windows machines don't crash unexpectedly because it's Microsoft and you should have expected it.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Hum... Hardware does still fail at random.

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[-] renzev@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days 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 2 points 1 day 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.

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

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[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days 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 1 day ago

I think the whole thing might be a joke? 😀

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days 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 2 days 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

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Journal won't be helpful in case of kernel panics.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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 bcdboot)

[-] Waffle@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days 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)

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[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 11 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately as a linux user you may get stuck-on-post syndrome but there are widely available immunizations and treatments available.

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