Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 76

I'm equally mystified, @dropbear42 !

I chrooted into the root partition and found that linux 6.1.arch1-1 was installed, but it only owns files under /usr/lib/modules.

So I re-ran `pacman -S linux`, which re-created vmlinuz and initramfs in /boot.

Not sure where these scripts are. They don't seem to be part of the linux package.

The #Manjaro #Linux installer looks neat, but I'll stop here: I just needed a live image to recover my existing Linux install which deleted its own kernel...

The #Manjaro live image booted quickly and effortlessly in UEFI mode, bringing me to a plain #KDE #Plasma desktop (which is good).

The kernel in the live image is 5.15.60 (an LTS kernel), and KDE is 5.24.6, which is quite outdated.

As expected, WiFi, GPU and sound work perfectly out of the box. If this isn't your usual experience, learn to pick your hardware more wisely, or stop using outdated distros.

@nosat Oh, then I'll disregard the PCR test result and go straight to work on Monday without telling anyone that I might be contagious.

Thank you for the great advice! 👍

@Gamewarrior010 *GPG keys

@dropbear42 I agree, and it's exactly what was needed to get a good number of Windoze users to switch to Linux!

If they didn't make a series of mistakes with Unity, MIR and Snap, they'd still be a good default choice for small companies and home users...

@pseudoramble @darcmage I used to turn off SElinux on the first weird issue, but now it's been enabled for a few years in a row without me having to notice its presence.

Granted, this is just a laptop, not a multiuser server with email delivery, LDAP and all sorts of daemons...

Back in August, I tried #PopOS and I was surprised by the polished UX they have built on top of the declining Ubuntu.

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@captdust

@captdust Thanks, I'll give it a try next time: the Manjaro ISO is still downloading, and today I'm running out of time for distro tourism 😅

@darcmage Indeed, I've been using Fedora on my personal laptop for ~20 years, and I would recommend it to Linux developers who want a reasonably up-to-date distro and don't mind having to go to RpmFusion and Flathub for media codecs, emulators, etc.

Wait... maybe as Mastodon users we're better off if he stays?

Maybe maybe maybe...

I have no idea how it happened... I remember running paru without arguments a couple of days ago, and didn't notice anything unusual in the logs.

@Gamewarrior010

@dropbear42 I don't think I'll migrate to #Manjaro today.

I just wanted to check if it's something I could give to family and friends who'd normally get #Ubuntu.

Yes Ubuntu sucks and Snap is horrible, but it gets enough QA that users without a lot of she'll experience can live with it without going back to Windows.

The primary reason I'm downloading a live image is that I need to recover #ArchLinux after the last update inexplicably uninstalled /boot/vmlinuz-linux 😅

@Gamewarrior010

@Gamewarrior010 Ugh... but it's not like #ArchLinux has always been free of update issues for me, particularly with packages signed with GPP keys not yet present in the arch keyring...

Also, I'm curious to see what the Manjaro installer looks like...

I've been using #ArchLinux for years, but I couldn't recommend it to any of my less technical friends. Even with archinstall, it's still not a smooth experience.

I'm downloading #Manjaro with the #Plasma desktop.

It's one of the few #Linux distros that positions #KDE and #GNOME on the same level, and I want to see how's the out-of-the-box user experience.

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