It’s not necessary but you’ll get updates quicker. And I’m a chronic updater, even pick and choose stuff from updates-testing.

You need to “sudo dnf clean all” first to make sure you get the freshest index!

LOL good one! Anytime there is damage to common areas, the affected homeowners have to file a claim on their HO6. Its the stupidest thing I’ve ever encountered. Roof leaked and I had water damage in the ceiling. I had to file a claim for the HOA’s $5k deductible.

I love my NUCs but haven’t really paid attention to what has happened since Intel sold that line to ASUS.

Upgrade to Fedora 40 was downright boring.

I did that few years ago when I re-ripped all my CDs and vinyl to flac.

I have never liked Windows. Unix workstations or linux pretty much since the mid 80’s. My current pet peeve is companies that block email clients except Outlook from connecting to their mail server (Exchange).

It was whiskey they used according to my Mum.

I prefer to give them the Benadryl earlier in the evening.

Or Gnu plus Hurd as I’ve been recently calling it.

Generally if you remove a file, it won’t affect programs that already have it open. So if you delete libc, hope that you don’t lose power. If worse comes to worst, you’ll need to pull the drive and mount it on another machine.

I just told this story to a friend but I did the standard rm -rf * as root while in the / directory. And this was back in the day where we nfs mounted every other machine and root privileges propagated through NFS. I think it was on the 2nd or 3rd machine when I thought – “this seems to be taking longer than I thought”.

I have taken a drive with filesystem issues, mounted on a different machine and either backup data I wanted to keep or copy files to make the original machine runnable.

Are you including back in the day when we had to use windows device drivers via ndiswrappers?

I’ve managed to remove a critical library once but did manage to extract it from an RPM on another machine and manually install it. That was good enough to get me to the point where I could yum reinstall.

Pre-linux we had an HP workstation where the disc drive died and of course we had no backups. I managed to frankenstein the disc by connecting the platters on the broken disc to the circuit board of a working disc. This worked and I was able to back up the disk and reload on to a new drive.

And then we bought an 8mm tape drive for backups and I had to port some drivers to HP-UX to get it to work. But we had awesome backups after that!

Plenty of modal dialogs flat out don’t work with keyboard follows mouse. But now that you mention it, its windows dialogs (not from 3rd party apps) that seem to be the most problematic.

And keeping your software up to date is a giant pain.

Windows is the much more difficult OS AFAIK. Even something simple like having keyboard focus follow mouse is a giant pain and doesn’t work well (pop up dialogs can be painful). I hate windows and managed to mostly avoid it until I switched jobs in 2017.