Dude, Microsoft has gotten really bad lately. I upgrades the SSD in a surface pro X I’m giving to a friend. I went to use Microsoft own recovery image for this device and it doesn’t fucking work. It literally kept erasing the flash drive when you tried to boot off it. You can’t use the generic win11 ARM image either because it’s a surface product and they can’t complete the install that way.

I ended up having to clone the old SSD with DD into the new one, move the recovery partition to the end with gparted, then use windows reset my pc thing.

The ability to upgrade the SSD was an advertised feature of the surface pro X. You literally cannot use the product they way they sell it to you.

I use Mac with no problems. I use Linux with the occasional fixable hiccup. I want to punch the pope in the fucking throat when I use windows.

Alpine has a simple diskless install process. Nobody else does. Alpine wins.

Mandrake

There’s some people who have managed to get it working under podman

Well, this should make for some fun, new script-kiddie malware.

Does anyone know how we ended up with penguins as the logo? I kinda get the BSD demon “beastie.” Microsoft chose the windows flag/window pane. Mac has an Apple/the finder face. Android is a cute green robot. iOS pretends to be too sophisticated for a mascot so we’ll just say it’s the Apple again.

And yet we somehow got penguins.

Dude I remember when live booting knoppix was impressive. Hell my intro to Linux was mandrake. We have so many great distros and documentation available now it’s crazy.

I can’t remember exactly why I hate SUSE, but I remember it never worked right when I tried it. Weird layers of abstraction, terrible ARM support, blegh.

Snaps promise to do some really cool things. They just are a bitch to use and they are slow and tied too heavily to canonical.

Weren’t you supposed to be able to snap in and out a kernel by now? Like, not even needing a reboot?