• MasterNerd@lemm.ee
    412·
    5 months ago

    Linux users when their computer won’t boot because they fucked up their grub config again: (Totally not me)

    • MadBigote@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 months ago

      Are you distro hopping? That’s when my grub would fail on me on a monthly basis.

    • spookex@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      Or just installed few months of missing updates, looking at you my broken Manjaro dual-boot

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          Tumbleweed will update six months of packages or more without breaking a sweat. It’s all about using something sturdy.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      52·
      5 months ago

      A lot of systems use systemd boot. Also, why would you be modifying Grub?

      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
        82·
        5 months ago

        They’re trolling and have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. I’ve literally not had a bootloader failure in a decade from multiple Linux OS installs.

        The only time I had an issue was when I was playing with a bleeding edge distro and it borked full disk encryption, but that was INTENTIONALLY bleeding edge and I knew the risks.

        • MasterNerd@lemm.ee
          4·
          5 months ago

          Nah I was doing some virtualization troubleshooting and had to make some changes to grub. Luckily I had backups, but as a serial tinkerer I break stuff pretty often. Also fucked up my fstab when trying to automount drives, though that was an easy fix. I never claimed to be a clever man