The credits

Shit… Play the Mr Plinkett Star Wars drinking game.

You’ll die of alcohol poisoning today.

USA

Love OpenWRT!

As a networking noob I spent more than a week configuring it to get it right, including needing to SSH into it because I flashed the wrong firmware (do not get NA and EU confused, the difference is enough to flat line your modem).

But in the end, I eliminated my bufferbloat with SQM; a feature the stock device lacked. I also set up a USB to act as expanded storage to install more software.

I got some extra advice OP. Power cables create electromagnetic resistance called flux. This interferes with poorly insulated data cables.

Also, don’t coil power cables. When a power cable is coiled the strength and range of flux multiplies. If you run a data cable through the center of a coil any previously effective insulation will be rendered moot.

TL;DR Power cables and data cables aren’t friends, keep them away from each other.

Can be helpful, can also be harmful. Power cables can create interference with data cables (Ethernet, HDMI), don’t run them close to each other.

“I don’t know, and neither do you”

I don’t know if there are diamonds hidden within the walls of my house, but pretending it’s true is going to result in a lot of damage.

The default position is to say “I’m not convinced there are diamonds in my walls” until someone proves me wrong.

I may not “know”, but I’m almost certainly right. I’m also very confident that all of the religions I know about are wrong. I feel justified to say I know that, even though, semantically, that’s technically incorrect.

Pleb kek

I would look for a setting in the UEFI to delay the startup, it might be that it’s too quick.

If you need to reboot into the UEFI you can use:

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

I spent three days installing Arch from scratch. After I got it working, I wiped everything and did it again and again, I wrote 2 simple script to automate the process, and after I was done, I wiped everything and installed Manjaro lol.

It’s a good learning experience, I recommend every new Linux user do it in a sandbox at least once.

If you try again, follow a dual-boot guide for your distro. Also, make your root and home partitions separate, so if you run into issues, you can reset safely.

Tell me your parents were upset at you when you were eight, for dismantling appliances, without telling me your parents were upset at you when you were eight, for dismantling appliances

ArchWiki is my first point of contact after experiencing an issue. Its an amazing resource.

I’m surprised Windows default troubleshooting solution has been to employee people who spend their time answering questions on forums, often just copy/pasting answers which often don’t apply to the question being asked.

Skill issue.

Kidding lol. It sounds like you just picked a bad distro. I run EndeavourOS and I can make 1 character pins if I want.

Practically everything besides computers run on Linux.

Can non-techies use android phones? Absolutely! They run on Android, which is just modified Linux.

There are idiot-proof distros out there, less intimidating than Windows or iOS.

I dualboot both.

Windows for games with anti-cheat.

Linux for everything else. EndeavourOS is my darling.

Bootloaders don’t interact with the UEFI, the UEFI interacts with the bootloader.

Sounds like you just used a bad one. systemd-boot is superb, it autodetects all kernals and shows an option to access the UEFI.

Windows however, assumes it owns your boot partition, so likes to delete Linux bootloaders if installed last.

This is very easily mitigatable.

Set your root and home partitions seperately. Keep a text file of all the applications you install (preferably as a script).

When you break it, reinstall the OS, and relink the home partition. Run the script to reinstall your applications. Done.

Certainly takes less time than reinstalling Windows or even asking it to fix itself.

If you need adobe, fair enough.

With Steam’s Proton, you can play games made for Windows. The only games which certainly won’t work are ones which require anti-cheat.