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I know I have broken software before, but it was my fault. Usually doing something asinine. It happens. I have rarely faulted the software for it though.
 
Need to dig out that meme of shoving the stick in the bicycle spokes blaming someone else.
 
Darunion said:
Need to dig out that meme of shoving the stick in the bicycle spokes blaming someone else.
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I've been off Windows for 5 years and the only problem I had was with Bazzite when I tried it earlier this year, the GUI self-destructed when I accidentally clicked on an icon that vanished after the fact.

That's why I recommend Catchy although I use Nobara. I don't understand why anyone uses any Ubuntu OS or its derivatives unless it's a job requirement or something. It's like going back in time.
 
Have you tried Bazzite? I havn't encoutered anything in Steam or through Heroic launcher yet that doesn't work out of the box. I've got my Epic, GoG and Prime accounts all added. Surprisingly, it works. I'm sure there's got to be a few things somewhere but so far for me every game I throw at it just runs.

Also the Heroic Launcher is kind of insane. I can click on the stores... and they just work. All in one place. Making it absurdly easy to claim all the free games on Epic And Prime without having to manage a bunch of logins in a separate browser.
 
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Lot's of ways, actually. Of course you can undo most of them. Unlike Windows, where there are ways to "fix" a broken install...if it happens to work for your particular flavor of broken.

I'm good at breaking software, Windows or Linux, BSD, whatever. Trust me, it can be done.

Edit: one way I recently broke stuff is by creating an encrypted directory in kde using their whatever it's called built in feature, and then deleting a directory...think it was "~/.cache". The files defining all your encrypted folders are in there, so delete them and poof--it's like they never existed. The files actually containing the data still exist though, so I was able to recover...one of the two directories, since I had the secrets saved remotely.
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So then yes, it more of a "you" thing, not a general Linux issue..

Anyone who "tinkers" in an OS, is often more likely to break things, instead of actually do much good..
 
Nobu said:
Edit: one way I recently broke stuff is by creating an encrypted directory in kde using their whatever it's called built in feature, and then deleting a directory...think it was "~/.cache". The files defining all your encrypted folders are in there, so delete them and poof--it's like they never existed. The files actually containing the data still exist though, so I was able to recover...one of the two directories, since I had the secrets saved remotely.
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I'm pretty sure you did a little more than that. As encrypted vaults can be mounted on another PC running KDE Plasma provided you know the password, and ~/.cache will vary enough between installs to rule it out as the cause of your problem.
 
Mazzspeed said:
I'm pretty sure you did a little more than that. As encrypted vaults can be mounted on another PC running KDE Plasma provided you know the password, and ~/.cache will vary enough between installs to rule it out as the cause of your problem.
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No, I definitely deleted a single directory, and then plasma didn't know what vaults I had anymore. May not have been .cache, was a while back, and like I said, I was able to recover.

And I'm not blaming the OS, I know it was my fault. Good grief you guys are insufferable.
 
Nobu said:
No, I definitely deleted a single directory, and then plasma didn't know what vaults I had anymore. May not have been .cache, was a while back, and like I said, I was able to recover.

And I'm not blaming the OS, I know it was my fault. Good grief you guys are insufferable.
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As stated, that can't be the case. I've mounted Vaults under KDE Plasma on entirely different systems/installs not a problem in the world - The thing is you have to know the password related to the encrypted volume. There's nothing in ~/.cache that has anything to do with Vaults beyond thumbnails - And deleting thumbnails won't damage the data contained within a Vault.
 
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Mazzspeed said:
As stated, that can't be the case. I've mounted Vaults under KDE Plasma on entirely different systems/installs not a problem in the world - The thing is you have to know the password related to the encrypted volume. There's nothing in ~/.cache that has anything to do with Vaults beyond thumbnails - And deleting thumbnails won't damage the data contained within a Vault.
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There was nothing wrong with the data, it mounted fine and was all there. The issue was plasma didn't know it was there -- I had to tell it where the file was, and put the credentials in again.
 
Nobu said:
There was nothing wrong with the data, it mounted fine and was all there. The issue was plasma didn't know it was there -- I had to tell it where the file was, and put the credentials in again.
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And after you did so, was the volume visible and accessible again?
 
I read this title and here was my thought.

" Yup that tracks, I am not even going to go back to windows 11 until service pack 3 or 4.

Why, cause I can't even get windows 10 to run on less on less than 1.2 GB of RAM of Desktop on boot regardless of how much time I have spent in power shell, cmd, registry, control panel and Services GUI"

So yea win 11 bui bui..
 
Mazzspeed said:
Really? Wanna explain how in a way that doesn't relate to Linux in 2010?

Because I've been running Linux for quite some time now and I've broken it about as often as I broke my Windows installs - Which is almost never.
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so very happy for you.

i installed bazzite, recommended because it was specifically for gaming, and it had a tendency to ignore keyboard input, except when it decided to make a key 'stick' and act like it was being repeatedly pressed.

tried mint, and the bluetooth didn't work. then the games didn't work either. unless i want to run 'almost' versions.

so very happy you only use your machine as a calculator and to email nana, but you should probably stay in your lane.
 
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