I had a Chevrolet Vitara (for Venezuela... for US people it would be a Suzuki Vitara) that my father bought in 1998 and gave me when I was 17.
First car I "owned", used for 6 years, never had to repair it or anything at all, took me everywhere without problems and since it was a small 2 door it fit everywhere.
I took my friends with it, my parents, traveled with it, etc. Also, surprisingly, we never had to do any repairs to the car since 1998 up until 2021 when my dad sold it because it was almost dead. That car was the best and I miss it.
Then I got a Dodge Dakota from 2002, it was good but I didn't like it as much as the Vitara.
Now I drive a VW Gol (2005), good car, a little fucked up.
No way I've been living for 3 decades and using computers for 2, and I am learning this information in 2023...
Tea with milk is the best thing ever. Everybody always looks at me weird when I put milk in my tea. They're just missing out, to be honest.
The worst part is that one of my friends doesn't mind putting milk in Pepsi but has the audacity to look at me funny when I put milk in tea.
You're right. Someone somewhere used Tom Cruise as Superior Iron Man. (I'm uploading an image in the comments for the first time on Sync, so it might not work. Hopefully, it does)
That's so cool, how do you personalize it like that?
I've been using Fedora for a month (I just started using Linux a month and a half), and I can't seem to find a way to do it.
The blue one on the left is Blue Beetle, no idea who the right one is.
Sorry for my ignorance, but how does that work? I (think) I understand what a kernel is, but how am I using Fedora 39 with a 38 kernel? Is there a documentation I can read somewhere so I can understand how that works?
Today it got fixed somehow, I just booted up Fedora 39 and it just worked. Also thanks a lot for the answer!
I'm fairly new to Fedora, so I don't know much (yet), I'm still learning.
That said, I tried upgrading from Fedora 38 to Fedora 39, it worked perfectly, I updated everything (including the NVIDIA drivers, yes) and everything was running fine, I did not delete the previous versions of Fedora from my laptop just in case.
Come today, a week later, and I can't enter Fedora 39. My laptop gives me a list of OS to choose from: Fedora 39, Fedora 38, and (sadly, because I need it for my job) Windows.
When I enter Fedora 39, there is just a black screen and the laptop doesn't proceed from there, however, when I choose Fedora 38 (or W11), I can enter without any issues.
So now the TL;DR:
Having Fedora 39 already installed, is there any way I can uninstall Fedora 39 completely while being on Fedora 38, and then reinstall? If so, how would I do it?
Thanks in advance for the help!
What do I do about it?
Uninstall Avast... Best antivirus software is Windows Defender + trusted websites/sources + common sense.
There is zero need for 3rd party antivirus software in 2023. They're just a problem looking for a solution.
Just shut down the damn app by this point, man.
At the end I just erased all my disks and started all over again :( figured it was the easiest and quickest way to deal with it because I urgently needed W11 for my job, I'll just be more ready for next time and read more about the OS before making a move so sudden like that
I chose sysremd, I didn't have time to fix the issue as I needed my laptop for work so I just did a clean install of everything once again. I think I will keep trying Fedora but I will read the documentation of EOS first so I can understand what I'm doing, I can't afford to make the same mistake again lol. I think what happened is that I accidentally erased the Windows EFI partition somehow and that's why it was not going in.
Is there an actual difference between those? Is one better than the other or it's just the OS giving options?
This is what I'm thinking happened. I already said this in another comment but will expand here because this comments refers specifically to the EFI partition. Here's the weird thing, 3 days ago, I had 2 SSDs:
- 1 with 3 partitions of Windows, one EFI part., one recovery part, and the regular C: local where my files were.
- On my secondary SSD, I had Fedora installed. If I'm correct, I had a /boot, and /home(?) don't remember if anything else.
I decided to do a clean install of Win11. When I did, I had both SSDs connected to my laptop, and when I finished the installation, this was how it was divided:
- 1st SSD: one, full 2TB C: Local disk, with no partitions.
- 2nd SSD: One EFI partition, one recovery partition, and one "empty" partition.
It was highly confusing, because I thought I had Fedora there, my immediate thought was that Win11 just straight up ravaged both my SSDs and decided "fuck it, let's install wherever the fuck I want" and it did. HOWEVER I could still get into Fedora and use it normally. Still had all the apps and programs I installed, everything was correct. So I assumed the drive still belonged to Fedora.
When I installed EOS, I chose "Erase Disk" on the secondary SSD (the one with Fedora, the one that had this "EFI partition" that didn't have before. I think when I erased that SSD, I erased the Windows EFI partition and couldn't boot as a result. And that's why the BIOS was not recognizing the OS, but at the same time I could just mount the SSD in EOS and just look t my files normally. So I think that's what happened, but honestly I'm not even sure of how it happened.
I tried all orders, there were 2 Samsung SSDs (primary and secondary), and another one called "EFI" something... When I changed the order to SSD #1 it opened EndevourOS, when I changed to SSD #2 it said "checking media........ failed", and when I put the "EFI" as the first in the order, it just restarted and went again to EndevourOS. At the end, I had to do the easiest and fastest thing: start over.
I think that when I installed Win11, it took part of my Fedora partition somehow, I'm not even sure if that's what happened and if that is what actually happened I have no clue how it happened, but right before erasing my secondary SSD to install EOS, there was a mention of a Windows "EFI" partition there, even though I could still get into Fedora. So when I erased that, I think I erased something related to Windows that I shouldn't have erased
While I was trying to fix the issue all day, this comment is one of the things I tried, but when my laptop started, it just said "checking media........ fail", then getting reset into an endless loop. I said it in other comments but I think I erased an EFI partition that I shouldn't have, I think Windows took part of my secondary SSD somehow.
After reading all these comments I just decided to format all my drives and start over. I made the mistake of installing EndevourOS at 12am when the next day I had to use Windows for my job! I did enter BIOS and changed the order but not even my BIOS recognized the OS, it just said "checking media........ fail" and it fell into a permanent loop. What I said in another comment was that I thought this had happened:
It's weird, but I had Fedora installed on my secondary SSD. Apparently when I did a clean Windows install, it installed in the primary SSD but took a part of Fedora on the secondary SSD as a Windows EFI partition. Then, when I installed EOS I selected "erase the disk" for the secondary SSD. I think it erased that EFI partition and I couldn't go back to windows, but since the primary SSD still had my files I could still see them. To be honest, something like that never happened before so I'm not even sure of what I'm saying.
I'm not even sure if that's what happened, as I'm still not an expert in these things, but when I erased the secondary SSD there was a "EFI partition" I had not seen before.
I wish, I still need to use Adobe products for my job, not even sure if I can install Adobe products in Linux yet, I'm still learning haha!
This is what I think happened that I wrote on another comment:
It's weird, but I had Fedora installed on my secondary SSD. Apparently when I did a clean Windows install, it installed in the primary SSD but took a part of Fedora on the secondary SSD as a Windows EFI partition. Then, when I installed EOS I selected "erase the disk" for the secondary SSD. I think it erased that EFI partition and I couldn't go back to windows, but since the primary SSD still had my files I could still see them. To be honest, something like that never happened before so I'm not even sure of what I'm saying.
Tbh I'm not even sure if that's what happened, I just didn't find an easy solution apart from starting over.
I was using UEFI I think? I used Rufus to make the bootable flash drive and it just gave me either MBR or GPT, when I selected GPT it showed me the UEFI option to the right (iirc). I spent all day seeing these comments and at the end of the day I had to delete everything in my hard drives and start over again...
It's weird, but I had Fedora installed on my secondary SSD. Apparently when I did a clean Windows install, it installed in the primary SSD but took a part of Fedora on the secondary SSD as a Windows EFI partition. Then, when I installed EOS I selected "erase the disk" for the secondary SSD. I think it erased that EFI partition and I couldn't go back to windows, but since the primary SSD still had my files I could still see them. To be honest, something like that never happened before so I'm not even sure of what I'm saying.
That's the problem not even the bios is reading windows after the EOS installation. I keep changing the order of things but when I boot from the other SSD it just says "checking media" and then "failed" and it gets looped over and over again.
But I can still see the windows drives and partitions from EOS... It's the weirdest ting that I've seen... Would you recommend just doing a clean install of everything in that case?
So, I made my bootable EndevourOS image. I installed it on my secondary SSD, while I have Win11 on my primary SSD (need it for my job).
When I installed it I booted it up and everything was ok. A bit confusing, but ok.
Wanted to get into Windows again because I needed to work on something for a design (Adobe programs), next thing I know: my computer isn't recognizing my Windows drive...
It's there. I can see it on the "disks" app on EndevourOS, I can mount the disk and even see my files in there. But it just won't boot.
Read the documentation and it mentions an "os-prober", that I needed to change GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in the etc/default/drub file... I don't have that file anywhere in my system...
I installed os-prober, nothing. I searched any other folder with a similar name and checked files... The only file with a mention of os-prober is grub.d that says "if GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=xtrue then random warning", but that is a set of instructions (i think), not the actual file.
I don't think I should have tried EOS/Arch when I've been learning Linux for only 2 days, can anybody help me with this? Thank you for any answers in advance.
This was solved!!
Don't know where to draw the line and say this is either a Windows post or a Linux post, but I'd rather post here because this community is more active.
To make the story short, I'm new to Linux and trying to make a jump to it in the future, but for now I decided to dual boot with W11 on my other drive until I understand what I'm doing.
Anyways, before I did a clean install of Win11, I had 2 SSDs like this:
- Disk0 - Windows installed
- Disk1 - Fedora installed
I wanted to clean my system and start over, and also wanted to try Endevour OS so I could later try Arch, but after doing a W11 clean install, my SSDs look different (see picture posted)
Now, I feel like my question is really basic. I specifically checked that W11 needed to only install on Disk0, so I don't know why Disk1 has some partitions:
If I remove/format Disk1, will I lose the whole OS and prompt me to install Windows again? Or should I just install it again regardless so I can install Linux (EOS) on the other drive?
Sorry if this is not a Linux question specifically, sorry if it's a stupid question and thank you in advance for any responses!
Hi! Don't know if this is the place to ask this but, basically what the title says.
TL;DR: Where do I start if I want to learn programming and potentially end in cybersecurity? Would computer science be a good decision? Should I learn any specific coding language?
I am a designer but I want to expand my knowledge and learn other things, programming is something that I've always kind of struggled with but I'm starting to like it nowadays.
I am currently switching my way over to Linux from W11, I've been distro hopping and trying Ubuntu, Fedora (the one I like the most as of yet) and now I will try EndevourOS (I still am not prepared to try pure Arch imho). All this playing around on Linux made me interested in coding, using the terminal, solving problems, analyzing logs, etc.
My main question is: where do I start? I'm not asking what "the best language is" or "which gives you the most jobs", it's more like I need advice on where to start with the things I want to do. While using Linux, I've been copy-pasting repos, codes, commands, etc., but I sometimes want to know what do those even mean or what the hell I am even doing, I don't want to be a copy-pasting machine without understanding what it means.
I think my objective is to end up doing Cybersecurity because, for me, it's one of the most interesting topics. I've read that it's better to start with Computer Science and then I can go with Cybersecurity or if I change, I could go with Soft. Eng., etc
I don't want to just make websites or apps, and I think I don't want to do IT (the kind of IT where you just help other people fix their computers), I do struggle with mathematics but if it's something I need to do to learn these things then I'll do it. I also would like to learn how to use/build servers.
Just want to make it clear though, I will be doing everything myself, as I don't have any money to go to a college/university, so if anyone has free resources, I would highly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance to everyone who read this and is able to help/give advice!
EDIT - After trying everything there is, I decided to make a new clean Windows Installation and everything worked again. So the problem was a bad Windows installation. However, I don't know why every single game stopped working specifically after the prologue and not before or after, but it's fixed now.
Has anybody had problems with games specifically crashing after the prologue? It doesn't even throw any errors or anything. I can play the game and even leave the game open **for hours ** without issues, or even start the game again and replay the prologue, but after that, all games crash.
These are all the games where that has happened:
Dying Light 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Resident Evil 2 & 4 Remake, Atlas Fallen, Fallout 4, DMC HD Collection, 4 SE and 5, etc. The only games where it has not happened are Mini Metro, Mini Motorways, and Universe Sandbox (none of those have prologues)
Some downloaded from FG, some from SteamRip, Empress, El Amigos, sometimes I even download different versions of the same game and end up with the same result.
The only "weird" thing I did before all this happened was doing a clean Windows Install. And the only weird thing I've noticed is that Steam has been really slow, but still, all the games are pirated so Steam shouldn't have anything to do.
The ESRB has proposed a new concept to allow for better parental control over kids playing video games.
>The ESRB has added:
“To be perfectly clear: Any images and data used for this process are never stored, used for AI training, used for marketing, or shared with anyone; the only piece of information that is communicated to the company requesting VPC is a “Yes” or “No” determination as to whether the person is over the age of 25.”
Sure, ok...
I don't know what else to say about this, this will obviously turn into something else.
