I’m more surprised that Manjaro is so low.

Musk’s voting machines?

Wow, good job tracking that down

If his drive is failing, and has bad sectors, windows will automatically repair damaged system files on boot. Also sounds like he’s having an issue with hibernation with the window server not starting back up after suspension.

Okay, assuming you’re being honest, it sounds like a hardware issue. Either your RAM is corrupting, or your hard drive is prone to errors. The good news is that you have options to daily drive Linux without ending up in a situation where you have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Like I mentioned earlier, you absolutely need to be making snapshots. I’m currently running Manjiro, and I’ve completely borked my system like 10 times already. But when I set up my system, I made sure my main partition was BTRFS, which has allowed me to roll back easily through both the UI and in grub rescue mode.

I would also recommend that if you are going to continue to dual boot windows, make sure they’re on two separate physical drives. And don’t share stuff like your steam library, because windows likes to screw shit up, and steam will throw a fit if you make it read an NTFS drive on Linux.

Just don’t give up, keep posting questions, and maybe even come back and post stuff like specific crash reports and system info so we can help you better. :)

It’s 2025, if you’ve got the space to dual boot, you’ve got space for snapshots. There’s no reason not to set them up. Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, pick your poison. Disk is cheap, your time isn’t.

And if “simple stuff” is breaking your system, that tells me three things:

1. You’re still using apt-get instead of apt

2. You’re ignoring dependency warnings

3. You’re probably not fully understanding the commands you’re running — so RTFM

So yeah, I will be telling you to use Mint, with at LEAST daily snapshots.

My bad, I meant their consumer grade stuff.

I would generally agree with you on their cloud/server solutions. However, I do think AWS will get there some day.

Microsoft is almost good as dead. These days, Linux takes just as much maintenance as XP used to. They’ve got maybe 5 years left until laptops start shipping with alternatives to Windows. My bet is it’s going to be SteamOS.

I just installed Manjaro on my daily driver over the weekend. My entire steam library just works. My dev tools all work(better) on Linux, and free office is nice and familiar. Fuck widows.

Huh, it’s also tagged as such. But my God is it vapid.

The way I see it, $HOME is for things I made. So I use ~/bin for my scripts

Closing correctly means the program stops NOW

That’s really cool, but the Spyware and AI bloat is still an issue

You’ve angered the Emacs gods 😨

GUIs are just terminal wrappers. Idk what to tell you, man

XRDP is fine when you get it working, but yeah there’s a little bit of setup involved

I like using No Machine

From what I’ve seen while Linux support is okay for the Surface line, it’s just not there yet to make sense as an “upgrade” power management and wireless still need some work if I recall correctly.

You gremlin lmao

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I like using proxmox