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Apparently sometimes you have to remove symlinks to make programs load. I had a very weird bug that made a library fail to load even if the symlink was good. I wrote a bug report to bugs.debian.org and they told me to remove the symlink. That fixed it, wtf
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm this way.
Doctor: Well, don't move your arm that way then.
As a lay-person, reading these memes and comments, and understanding nothing, is probably the biggest factor that's made me decide that, while I hate windows, I'll never feel comfortable using Linux. I mean, seriously, how much of the time are you frustratingly troubleshooting stuff? I just want something like Windows that won't shove ads and ai bullshit at me and won't brick my laptop after updates π
I use Linux Mint since last June and I rarely have to troubleshoot my PC and when I have to, it's obviously my fault for messing around.
Haha me neither... i have been daily driving linux 7 years now
Fedora, I think?
If it makes you feel any better, everytime I had to do this was because I was going out of my way to fix a linux game I compiled myself or some service I hacked together. I'm 99% sure you can have a hassle-free linux desktop experience if you follow the standard way your distro suggests of doing things. Have you tried testing the waters with a linux live usb stick yet?
Oh I haven't tried anything yet. I'm too scared I'll fuck it up π Anything that has me loading boot screen and entering commands has me thinking I'll just absent mindedly type "delete system/32" somehow
Reminds me of when I abused LD_LIBRARY_PATH and installed a Linux from scratch distro on a headless test server that no one was using. I got it all the way to x11 forwarding a full i3 environment without super user privileges.
CKAN (mod manager for kerbal space program) created a multi month long battle for me because it started making copies of the original game for mod installs with symlinks to the original game files rather than just copying it outright, this made it impossible to boot certain mods because part of their first time set up was overriding files. Eventually I realized what the problem was and just manually copied the files in to the folder before loading up the mods for the first time.
WHICH IS INFURIATING! The whole reason I made new game installs was so that shit could be overwritten without breaking the base instal! WHY THEY HELL WOULD IT DEFAULT TO SYMLINKS FOR THAT?
Guys do not do this, it's gonna cause a mess further down the line.
"The problem with creating these links is that they aren't managed in any meaningful way. If that library is removed, the link becomes broken. If the library is upgraded, it may encounter an error because of the link that it doesn't expect to be there."
What in ln - s good name are you suggesting.
Any and all uses of ln - s /usr/lib/something.so.7 /usr/lib/something.so.6 is merely accidental!
Why do we even need dynamic linking if we have deduplicating file systems?
We don't, blame Oracle it's their fault
Daily nixos behaviour
What about setting up a new environment correctly instead?
Says the man that just copied and pasted, then checked in 800mb of shitty angular dependencies just to get Jenkins to be able to build his inherited project.
It's ok, they don't pay me enough to support a family and don't give a shit about this project, and it's for internal use.
Thatβs so stupid.
downloads and runs entire Linux distro just to run a python script without managing dependencies
I remember when games would't work with wine, complaining about some dll, I would get it from some random shady site and drop into the wine system dir. Some of the times, it worked, to even my own surprise
"DLL finder", holy shit I remember tools like that... God, now that I know how shared libraries work, that's kinda terrifying people just saw that error message and downloaded whatever the fuck they found whereever they found it...
Must be how some malware spread.
Look, man, I gotta play Sim Theme Park. If everything else blows up, thatβs a problem for later.
Meanwhile as a guix+nix user i can just build it against that old library version because nothing can conflict with each other anyway