I tried for a solid couple of afternoons to sort it out and I wasn't able to get it to work to a point where it wouldn't crash Docker (or vice versa).
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The difference is that problems are usually much easier to research on windows because it's a monoculture. When you search for an issue you're having, there's usually a howtogeek or an MS community popup that has step by step solutions that most often work. It's rare I have to spend more than 10 minutes troubleshooting something on windows.
Looks like we are having a "Windows moment". I just had the opportunity to play around with Windows 10 on bare metal, and shit just worked.
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Yeah I think I noticed that too. I re-imaged a Pi with Ubuntu recently (because Poettering is the chosen one and GNOME is the desktop of kings) and sure enough, the Microsoft repo was gone. I had to install VS Code manually.
I tried out Twister OS just the other day because of your posts here. It is indeed pretty comfy for gaming and media. I got a bunch of games from gog like Empire Earth running on it. I mean, I can run them better on my desktop anyway, but just the novelty of running them on the pi 400 was neat. I put it on a 250gig hard drive in an enclosure and set up the pi to try to boot from USB first followed by the SD card, I can leave the SD card I use day to day in there, and when I want to fuck around with Twister and play some games I just have to plug in the USB enclosure.
I think that's an important point to admit. I got into Linux hoping for a more accessible system, and in certain ways it is, but I've also spent far more time researching and troubleshooting than I ever had with Mac OS or Windows.
I disagree. While that's true to an extent and always will be for any freedom respecting OS, I think that if the market share and use cases were reversed then Windows would have the same problem to an almost equivalent degree. Between the Ubuntu/Debian/Centos (rip) trifecta there's a lot more homogenity than one might imagine.
If your point is that ease/difficulty of troubleshooting depends more on market share than on homo/heterogeneity, I totally agree.
I don't know what its like now but years back when linux was gaining in popularity the linux channels on youtube didn't help matters. Most would do regular distro reviews but 95% of these boiled down to some sped autistically going through the default programs. "Mmmm yes unfortunately FaggotOS comes with chromium and not Firefox". You mean the thing that takes 2 minutes to change and download in the package manager? Never saw the point of these so called reviews.
I am not a clever kiwi. Is this an issue at the physical or logical level, or to put it another way can it be avoided by on a single physical disk by putting / on an ext or whatever partition and /home and /mnt or whatever on zfs?
I haven't even tried ZFS, but reading through the issue, it does rather seem like the issue still exists with non-root partitions (well, /home etc), just the risk of corruption is going to be confined to your precious files (or collection of every season of Knight Rider) as opposed to both your precious files and the underlying system.
