After years of distro hopping, I had one to many updates which borked some driver & realized what I’m really looking for is my laptop should be boring stable appliance. Incredibly happy with it so far.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    break and refuse to boot as it had fallen behind on updates

    Fucking what?

    How are you supposed to update it if it won’t boot? I already wasn’t a Fedora fan, but that one’s definitely getting crossed off the list now.

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      I don’t recollect the exact message, but the error was essentially saying I’d gone past the supported time for that major version. Showed up right after boot screen and won’t boot. It was a month or two beyond their date for sure, but let me boot and update? I think I tried single user/rescue boot and I couldn’t seem to get it updated, but I did manage to save off all the application data. I still have the defunct VM saved to eventually figure it out, but I’m having trouble finding the time. Lesson learned as I’ve moved to Debian for those roles, but I do keep my only other fedora system up to date attentively.