I haven’t had it happen to me for a while now. I used to have a boot repair liveCD that’d always do the trick, but I don’t think that specific distro even exists anymore.

The gist is you’ll want to boot a liveCD and use the liveCD to reinstall GRUB, I’m sure you can find the right incantation to do so online somewhere.

Windows basically never nukes the actual linux install. It DOES like breaking the bootloader though. Which is fixable but still deeply annoying.

There’s a pretty wild variety of decorative grasses that’d look kick-ass as an office plant.

That’s not at all legal under GDPR. Nor is having deny all be harder than accept. As is tradition however companies don’t give half a shit until fines start happening.

And yet suicides measurably decreased when the switch to blister packs was made.

Okay but if you’ve never had rice with sesame seed dressing you’re depriving yourself. Shit’s like magic.

work on your reading comprehension.

You’re either being intentionally obtuse or disingenuous.

Or I’m simply disagreeing with you. I’m not disagreeing to disagree, I just simply am not convinced by your arguments.

you wouldn’t count people who bought that refrigerator as Linux users, would you?

No, I would not.

If they’re not exposed to any operational functions of the OS, then counting them as users of the OS is dishonest.

Right, but the steam deck exposes all that perfectly fine, a lot of uses simply choose not to engage with that. Someone using debian but then only touching the web browser still counts as them using linux surely.

I used to play with a metal bodied pen at my desk, and you could totally shock yourself by touching it to your chin while aimed at the CRT.

Measuring by units would be WAY more skewed. The top 10 would all be free items, or if you exclude those $0.01 items. Measuring gross revenue is much harder to game unless you count “actually selling $500 hardware a lot” as cheating somehow.

But that’s true for anything. you could swap out the OS under gnome and most users wouldn’t notice either.

I’d probably call Big Picture the Desktop environment in this case. Yes it’s a simplified linux experience, but it’s not not linux.

They’re using a curated overlay for Linux

This is commonly known as a “distro”. SteamOS is just particularly good at being user friendly for it’s fairly narrow use-case.

so basically 2m tall. that’s not even all that absurd. He’s only got 15 cm on me.

My mom about 5 minutes after taking the first morphine pill: “Hmm, I wonder when I’m allowed to take the next one [checks clock]”

Shit’s evil.

this sort of really briefly works if the observer is nearer the new location. Light from the new location reaches the observer before the lack-of-light reached the observer from the old location.

still would only work for the tiniest amount of time and confuse no-one, but then this isn’t hard sci-fi.

Gotta be careful about some sweeteners too. Xylitol is pretty toxic to dogs if I recall correctly.