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My PC: "Oh, you touched /etc/fstab? Fuck you"
Give
systemd-analyze verify /etc/fstab
A try!
But then I'd never get to use my recovery media :(
Users should never have to fiddle with the fstab manually. It's a shame the internet is still pointing to it when asked most of the time instead of explaining the GUI disk tools. Or at least some CLI management tool in case that one exists.
This is the correct mindset to have when trying to push Linux as a viable alternative to the big two.
If you make more things easy for newcomers and just anyone in general, you'll eventually get more users, and a larger base that then correlates to higher overall usage of Linux. You know, like those screenshots of the Linux install base we see every now and then?
You don't have to keep Linux behind arbitrary lines, but for some reason, that's all we like to do.
"Unfortunately" most of the higher user base comes from the Steamdeck where most users never use it as a desktop PC. While many people are now trying Linux for themselves due to lots of good reasons, it remains unnecessarily complicated to use for many reasons. Abundance of bad advice being one of them.
Wrong. You just need to know what you're doing and must not be impatient. Just spend 5 damn minutes reading before you do the thing. We don't always need unnecessary abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions.
Welcome to the reason 99% of Linux distros remain so unpopular and both hard and unintuitive to use unless you're tech-savvy. After those 5 minutes about 50% do it correct, the other 50% put a single character in the wrong place or follow an incomplete and bad guide and get stuck in boot. Or they'll go and use an OS that's more intuitive and more efficient for them despite probably also extorting them because that weird "Linux" thing is obviously only for nerds, who're completely detached from the reality of most people out there not realizing that modifying core system configuration by hand that can make your device inoperable without any help from your operating system itself should not be the god damn norm.
On don't have a gui on that one.
Those who use a system without any GUI are adv. users or professionals who know what they're capable of, who can safely ignore any safety features.
99% of users ain't Linux professionals though. So 99% of guides and tips should show the more safe, intuitive, accessible GUI tools.
Ok? Not sure what that has to do with my situation.