• Hatchet
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    22 years ago

    Let’s be honest. If you haven’t broken your bootloader at some point in time, you haven’t experienced Linux.

    • ⓓⓐⓡⓣⓗⓟⓔⓝⓘⓢ⑥⑨OP
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      12 years ago

      I’ve broken my bootloader many times. I remember frantically looking up how to fix that online for the first time. Now I know not to do stupid things that could bork my bootloader.

    • PennyJim
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      02 years ago

      As a Linux noob, the only time I’ve broken my bootloader was updating my distro after ignoring it for a year. I ignored the update because it broke a badly made script badly solving the complex problem caused by a simple problem that I ignored the solution to.

      I finally fixed the simple problem because I needed to upgrade a library to get a modded launcher working so I could play with my friends. And I was thinking of rewriting the firmware for my macro keyboard to be better structured anyways.

      I went back to the old firmware with a simple fix as the new one has a weird bug that if I hold two “even” keys at once, I get spammed down signals for the higher order one.

      Linux has been fun!

      • @nodiet@feddit.de
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        02 years ago

        I mean if you know how to write firmware you don’t really count as a Linux noob, regardless of your lack of experience with linux