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   Mystic (mammal@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 12:24:03 JST Mystic
   My windows boot drive just broke for no apparent reason. No new updates. Worked fine yesterday. Total boot failure now. Probably going to have to replace the OS or the drive.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 12:24:02 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Are you sure it's not the cmos battery?
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     Mystic (mammal@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 13:14:04 JST Mystic

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     @Humpleupagus I mean I still get the bios menu and everything it just fails to load windows and startup repair also fails
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 13:14:04 JST Jolly Rancher

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     The default bios menu .. if Humps is right, its little coin cell battery has expired, and it can't do anything without the date and time and a few critical parameters kept in volatile storage by the battery.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 13:19:46 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Shot in the dark, but a dead battery can do all sort of stuff depending on the motherboard, os, etc. I'd check that first before assuming it's the drive, though it may well be he drive. Even if not dead, low current can be enough for fuckery.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 13:22:21 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Jolly Rancher
     Also check bios to see if any parameters have been reset to default. I have a laptop that did that once mid-use, causing a kernel panic, and making it unbootable until I fixed everything. If everything looks good, it's probably the drive.
     
     You may be able to repair from a usb too if you have or can make one.
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     Mystic (mammal@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:31:34 JST Mystic

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     @JollyR @Humpleupagus but it does have the correct date and time in the bios menu
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:39:04 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Install Linux on that machine, and never look back. 🤨
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     Mystic (mammal@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:39:05 JST Mystic

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     @Humpleupagus @JollyR I think windows 10 is end of life anyway so it's out of date. Updating itunes broke this boot recently too. I don't want want to bother with cloud accounts I do local only so that's why I didn't upgrade to 11.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:40:54 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     I think manjaro kde plasma is the closest to windows and one of the easier builds to install and maintain for noobs. It also has a stable repo, it's about 1 to 6 months behind bleeding edge. It has a usb installer. You just have to flash it to usb.
     
     https://manjaro.org/products/download/x86
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     Mystic (mammal@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:40:55 JST Mystic

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     @verita84_64 @Humpleupagus @JollyR what kinda linux we talkin because I don't know shit about linux
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:40:56 JST verita84

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     @Humpleupagus @JollyR @Mammal
     
     Win11 LTSC
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     Mystic (mammal@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 14:47:05 JST Mystic

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     • verita84
     @Humpleupagus @JollyR @verita84_64 I haven't really used a USB boot much besides this program called hiren's boot disk which basically you can bypass the login passwords with it by overwriting them at the admin level with the backdoor that software provides. Same guy I learned that from had this other USB using an app called parted magic to unfuck these storage drives.
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 15:59:26 JST Jolly Rancher

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     • verita84
     Then don't install the Chicago95 part. You'll be back to the desktop of whatever Linux distro you're using.
     Lunduke's point, however, is that you can run any app or game or widows thing you want, and don't really need any closed system underneath it.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 15:59:26 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     I'm simple. I like i3wm and run as much shit in terminals as I can. GUI / mouse apps are overrated. There are a lot of tui apps that are just as good and sometimes even better.
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 15:59:27 JST verita84

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     THe problem is that it looks shitty mixed with modern apps. Modern apps and web browsing do not really fit well with retro-tech UI Themes
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 15:59:28 JST Jolly Rancher

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     Lunduke has this combination that looks like Windows 95, but there are a number of fiddly bits to install ..
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75joO14Tlt0
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:07:33 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     As a general day to day matter, I have no need for windows at all. I don't have wine installed on any system.
     
     I do run win11 on my studio rig, but that's because of plugins. Linux has quality daws now. Just not full plugin support for certain genres.
     
     EDM you could do on linux. Metal not so much.
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:07:34 JST verita84

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     @JollyR @Humpleupagus @Mammal
     
     Lunduke would have been better off shilling VirtualBox's Seamless mode where you install windows in a VM and then all the apps appear native on the Linux Desktop.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:16:37 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     I really don't want to. Linux has no comparable guitar / bass vsts.
     
     I use bitwig and renoise on both though.
     
     Linux would be preferable because of rt kernels, and pipewire / jack.
     
     In windows each ASIO device can only be used by a single program. It can be bridged, but windows is way behind in pro-audio.
     
     I also have a rednet-dante card, and in windows there's a software layer, while Linux would run it via kernel module.
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:16:38 JST verita84

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     @Humpleupagus @JollyR @Mammal
     
     dam you use windows more than me now =)
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     eee (eee@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:18:47 JST eee

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     https://www.justin-bento.com/projects/nam-linux-tutori...
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:20:01 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     Not comparable to Ample or Shreddage or Native Instruments or Amplitube or Recabinet.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:23:30 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     You can use wine in most cases, but that comes with latency.
     
     Renoise does have an autosampler, vsts can be jumped to audio samples, but I'd still have to run windows to do that then move the instrument file to a Linux box, and it's not always perfect.
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:23:31 JST verita84

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     @Humpleupagus @JollyR @eee @Mammal
     
     can Claude build you anything to solve your problems on linux ?
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:27:19 JST verita84

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     @Humpleupagus @JollyR @eee @Mammal
     
     oh. VM would not solve your problem either? Good ole Win11 VM running on ya Linux Sir.. VBox Seamless mode
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 16:27:19 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     I doubt it. Rednet runs at 2-3ms latency round trip. 80usecs card to card once its past the software layer. Adding additional software layers would kill the speed.
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 15:50:48 JST Jolly Rancher

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     In other news I just reinstalled manjaro because it crashed after running an update that left a defective init kernel in UEFI space. Lunduke was aparently correct when he said nobody's driving the bus over at Manjaro HQ.
     I'll still prefer that to Microsoft malware but other distros are more stable.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 15:50:48 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     If running manjaro, set pacman to exclude meta packages, especially kernel. They will remove your backup kernels and bork grub. mhwd-kernel -i is your friend.
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 15:50:49 JST verita84

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     @JollyR @Humpleupagus @Mammal
     
     yEA. I remember Dell started giving people discounts if you choose FreeDOS instead of Windows lol
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     verita84 (verita84_64@poster.place)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 15:50:50 JST verita84

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     @JollyR @Humpleupagus @Mammal
     
     No way this point is accurate:
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 15:50:50 JST Jolly Rancher

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     I wouldn't know, I'm just running Manjaro here, with libre office and so forth. It's a new computer, came with Win11, but I have done this ever since 1995, when I get a new computer. Just blow it away and install Linux. I don't run Wine.
     There were some of us sending a bill to Microsoft every time for a refund, but nothing ever came of that.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 16:03:26 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • verita84
     Also, your issue couldn't be fixed via chroot and reinstalling grub?
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 16:20:03 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I thought manjaro iso boots into the OS. If not, get the i3wm community build. It does. I've even used it to chroot into debian etc. It's a good recovery iso.
     
     manjaro-chroot -a
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 16:20:04 JST Jolly Rancher

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     Probably. I am disorganized and all I have at hand is a usb with the manjaro intall iso. Unlike mx, it doesnt keep the old initrd images around.
     MX had better boot repair tools. If a mx update failed i could just boot one of the 3 previous kernels.
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 16:28:52 JST Jolly Rancher

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     Thanks, man. I don't have any experience with chroot.
     The iso i have is just push this button to install. I need to study..
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 16:28:52 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Chroot just means change root, so you can access a root partition on another drive as if it's root. So if you bork something, like an update, you can chroot in and run pacman to fix it, etc.
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     Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 07:01:14 JST Jolly Rancher

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     • verita84
     Pacman, manpac, whatever manjaro calls it. Frickin pileocrap.
     Probably because they don't have dependencies properly mapped.
     I tried 'manjaro-chroot -a' and got an error message. Nothing is there.
     
     So the install that crashed was on btrfs. I still think intead of attempting repair i will reinstall on ext4. Because when i look at the old partition it just has a bunch of directories srarting with @. And when i try to drill down,there isn't any data in them. Or just some random bits and pieces. It's btrfcked.
     
     On the bright side, ddg ai (chatgpt mini) was able to answer my search for how to mount the defunct system. The old search just gave long manpages, voluminous 'theory of btrfs' docs, reams of advertising, and almost nothing useful... the ai was able to distill it into CLI commands in 2 seconds. They worked.
     
     I'm posting this on my phone and will be away from fedi for a couple days. Life calls! Not just the computer, I'll have that back running. Bills to pay, etc
     👣 😩
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     Jolly Rancher (jollyr@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 06:27:20 JST Jolly Rancher

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     • verita84
     Couple rsync operations, and it's up and running in a small ext4 partition. Btrfs is too complicated. I can run weekly backups with rsync or whatever.
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