- OneDrive mirroring
Stop telling me that I am out of storage, I did not ask you to put my files there.
- Nvidia Linux drivers
A 2 month old driver from a desktop 3070 failed to detect a laptop 3050, and I had to chroot to remove the offending driver, buuuut
- Rescue USB
So it turns out the default Tumbleweed ISO is NOT a live image. Recue didn’t work nor did usb boot until I realised. Burned LMDE onto the usb key, and I was able to get back up and running relatively quickly.
A bizarre audio issue I’ve been dealing with for months where some applications (discord, steam) will stop playing sounds when I receive a message after some random amount of time (days usually) restarting pipewire.pulseaudio and relaunching the applications fixes it but it’s annoying not realizing someone messaged me until hours later.
Discord flickering on Nvidia beta drivers when everything else works great now
For a minute there when my roommates window AC unit kicked on it sometimes blew the circuit my PC is on, and for some reason that was resetting my BIOS settings causing my PC to try to boot from the wrong drive. Dunno what that was about but it stopped happening so w/e
A bizarre audio issue I’ve been dealing with for months where some applications (discord, steam) will stop playing sounds when I receive a message after some random amount of time (days usually) restarting pipewire.pulseaudio and relaunching the applications fixes it but it’s annoying not realizing someone messaged me until hours later.
I can’t remember how I fixed this, but I fixed this. I think I had to force it to use a specific sample rate.
Windows being windows and changing things I set specifically for specific reasons but windows just changes it.
For instance for some fucking reason I was getting a security warning when opening any file with notepad++
1.) Windows did something where i could click one button or icon then it would become non-responsive. This isn’t the first time. I can’t reproduce but i “fixed it”, nad idk if the fix was unplugging all the usb crap or restoring the system image or re-installing the nvidia drivers or what
2.) Did you know windows assigns priority to game controllers and joysticks, and there’s no native way to change that? So if you happen to have an analog keyboard and a mouse-like-object, a Cyro, with an analog joystick then windows will cheerfully declare that they’re game controllers and some games won’t recognize your actual game controller since it’s registered as like game controller six or some bs?
3.) I’m sure windows has done some other bs but who even knows.
My laptop runs Linux, but my desktop runs windows because of inertia.
When I built it, I installed windows on a 128GB SSD and put in a 2TB HDD for everything else. I thought at the time this was a fairly reasonable config since SSDs were still very expensive for any reasonable amount of capacity. I have since added more drives but windows is still installed on the small SSD.
Windows really does not know how to handle a small C drive. It fills up the appdata folder with garbage from every program I install, garbage that should in any reasonable world be kept in those programs’ own folders on other drives where I actually told them to install, and appdata cannot be moved off C to another drive. Then windows complains about not having enough space on my computer despite terabytes of free space on other drives.
The only upside of this nonsense is that windows update also relies on free space on C being available and is therefore broken and unable to forcibly update me to newer, worse versions of windows.
I could install windows to a bigger drive but if I’m reinstalling an OS I’m gonna install a better OS and then I’m back to inertia.
Nvidia Linux drivers are hell.
