• Titou@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    What you are saying is toxic communities that reply RTFM to every question like arch or gentoo.

    Im active on arch communities and i’ve never seen this kind of message, most of the time they give you a hyperlink to a specific chapter of the manual so you know exactly how to fix your issue, not just copy pasta.

    Windows is more documented. Not better but more.

    Not at all but ok.

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      5 months ago

      For your first paragraph, try arch discord and for the second ever used a search engine or just youtube? Windows is way more documented. Not necessarily by Microsoft but by the absolute waste community.

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        Windows is way more documented. Not necessarily by Microsoft but by the absolute waste community.

        Kinda hard to provide a full documentation of a os as a particular when you have absolutely no control on it. Also there’s plenty of “windows tutorial” that are either wrong or out of date, while in Arch or most closely Linux there’s things that still remain the same years later.

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        Windows is way more documented. Not necessarily by Microsoft but by the absolute waste community.

        If I had a nickle for every BSOD error code I researched only to find “have you tried running sfc /scannow? What about a refresh? You tried both and nothing worked? Just reinstall!”

        More documented my ass. Linux at least tells me what’s wrong. “No space left on device” or “missing dependency” is way better than “Error code 0x0000007e”

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          Jup, Im having an NTP issue on my win10 machine If you search for it you find the same 5 “solutions” from dozens of content farms.

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          have you tried running sfc /scannow?

          To be fair this is kinda “did you try to reboot?” kind of answer. Stupid, but effective.

          Just reinstall!

          IT’S TIME TO REINSTALL ШINDOWS! This is why I love Linux community, especially Gentoo. Reinstalling system is rarely considered to be valid answer.

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          I repair computers on the side and this exact issue happens so frequently I know some of the error codes that I dont bother trying to fix now. The sheer amount of Windows reinstalls I have to do… honestly its often faster than trying to fix the problem.