Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by AsyncAwait on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:08PM
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I am not saying this didn't happen to you, but it looks like a fluke or a distro specific bug, since I specifically had power outages while running my Arch home server and haven't had to recover from USB.
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by throwawayish on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:59PM
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Usually this happens when the system crashes/otherwise terminates during system upgrades. Kinda hard to boot if /sbin/init is a link to an empty file.
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by AsyncAwait on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:37PM
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Well sure, but that is true on every system, hence Windows warns "Do not turn off your PC".
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by throwawayish on Monday March 06, 2017 @09:57AM
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Actually Windows can and does use NTFS transactions (TxF) in the Installer and Updater code, so the probability of non-recoverable damage should be lower (which is also my experience; power off a Linux machine during updates and you are pretty much guaranteed to have many packages with empty files, partial file trees and so on; power off a Windows machine and it probably is still fine, but sometimes you get weird issues where it can't properly reinstall/deinstall some updates to try again).
It's not a novice problem. I know what a fsck is and I know you're not supposed to unmount filesystems improperly. But you shouldn't be presented with an error that you can't recover without a rescue USB because your system lost power.
And the video configuration issues are just weird. Monitors plug and play perfectly but all of a sudden it got so screwed up, I had to poke around quite a bit to get things back to normal. Frustrating the heck out of me because I'm used to something that just worked.