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  • I remember getting into political arguments that went nowhere at the time but resulted in me changing my mind years later. The people I argued with never knew about my change of heart. As far as they knew I was one of those people who get more entrenched in their beliefs.

    What I’m getting at is that your arguments can hit home without looking like it. What you’re seeing as getting defensive could just be the early stages for them changing their minds.

    This can be especially true if someone’s political beliefs are part of their identity. You don’t make those kind of changes all at once.

    So I’d say just argue in good faith, don’t try to score points, provide food for thought if you can, and hope for the other person to eventually find their way to the truth.



  • There are companies working on providing that experience for Linux. System76 is one. You can buy a laptop with their is pre installed. Everything works, including suspend. If something breaks, you call the support number or email and they either talk you through fixing it or sending it in for repair or replacement. It’s not that different from having a Dell or HP.




  • I’m pretty sure I was set up for substitutes, but this was a while ago.

    I did end up replacing my router a few months after that, so it may have just been that my connection was very slow.

    Also, every time I tried it and it didn’t work, I had to do a full Pop Os install in order for myguix install media to start working again, which added a few minutes to the process.


  • I was thinking something to do with nonvolitile memory.

    The real problem was that the guided install - guix pull - system reconfigure - reboot process took about three to four hours each time, so I gave up after a few iterations.

    I did try playing around with bios settings a little, but I’m sure I missed some possibilities.


  • I thought that, but I had identical results using the stock install media and the modified nonguix one from systemcrafters.

    The weird thing was that the initial install went fine, even after the first reboot. The problem was the next boot after my first system reconfigure.

    Not only could I not boot my system after that, but I couldn’t boot the install media either. The only thing that would work was the installer for the most recent pop os.