• finkrat@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “Why doesn’t this just work I never had this problem on Windows!!” leaves no necessary information to troubleshoot

    Vs.

    “I have this specific and obscure workflow I use with this one package nobody has heard of, I perform XYZ action and after I ran pacman -Syu I’m seeing that the application is segfaulting and leading to this call trace…”

    Five page dump of dmesg

    “I mapped this to line 748 of the Linux-Zen kernel source file can somebody help explain how I can work around this?”

    No responses for eternity, thread archived

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    8 months ago

    ProtonDB comments… at the very least say if you’re using an nvidia or AMD card ffs

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    8 months ago

    Seriously though. Seen people install Mint, and run non-Linux games through steam with no issues. I had to troubleshoot for about 8 hours so kind of make them run.

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      8 months ago

      Hardware is a big factor in this. Mint in particular is a stable distro based on the ubuntu LTS so it’s slow to get new kernels and you need a ppa to get a fresher mesa install and this is essential for newer amd hardware. Conversely if you’re on a rolling bleeding edge distro and you rely on nvidia and their closed drivers then you’re often one update away from breaking them.

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    8 months ago

    Me, installimg a few Flatpak apps, having them work for a while then suddenly break for no apparent reason, spend an enture day trying to fix them, only for an update acouple days later to fix it.

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      8 months ago

      The two hardest problems in programming are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.

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    8 months ago

    This was fixed ages ago, but you are using Debian because it is “stable” and thus software from ages ago and don’t have the fix.

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      The best part is when I check to see what exact version of the package I really have and despite it being old, it’s the version a month after the one where the bug was fixed but I’m still getting the bug so I guess I’ll go fuck myself then.