Wudang
BOFH
I saw a facebook post about someone using Gemini CLI and it screwing up their Git with git clean. I asked if you'd allow a new programmer you'd never worked with before to logon with your git credentials.
Avoiding Win 11 and staying with 10
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Wudang
BOFH
Anyway my refurbed desktop (which I now gave a 1 * review on Amazon and reported an issue with) is a OptiPlex 7020 Small Form Factor (End of Life). Dell support leads me on a lovely dance through a maze of twisted little web pages all alike, telling me to select options that don't exist and follow links that aren't there. ISO9000 fail. Ubuntu server it is.
Some years back I was on the ferry to my home island and got talking to a friend of my brothers. She had a massive suitcase which she told me was full of Dell PCs. She worked for Dell and was being paid to go home and then phone in with various problems to see if Dell support was as bad as some said.
<Narrator>"Things did not go well."
Some years back I was on the ferry to my home island and got talking to a friend of my brothers. She had a massive suitcase which she told me was full of Dell PCs. She worked for Dell and was being paid to go home and then phone in with various problems to see if Dell support was as bad as some said.
<Narrator>"Things did not go well."
Or even more appropriately your mate's teenager that is really good with computers...
Wudang
BOFH
Anyway my desktop now has Ubuntu 24 on it. Easy install - only issue was my external 5Tb USB drive. Changed the mount filesystem from "auto" to "ntfs" and all good. Configuring Plex media server now.
plague311
Great minds think...
I genuinely love this thread. It's been a blast to read, I just want everyone to know that. I hope Microsoft never ruins my life the way it has for some people in this thread lol. After a few decades of working with both Linux and Windows I don't think either have harmed me in the ways one or the other have harmed people in this thread. It's absolutely outstanding.
alfaniner
Penultimate Amazing
I had a weird thing today where I suddenly couldn't get the speakers to work, the Volume automatically went to 0. I went as far as looking into rolling back drivers (although no new ones had been installed.) After a couple full reboots it magically came back on again.
plague311
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Usually when I see this happen it's because someone accidentally press a weird button combo. The end users I support do this quite a bit, and sometimes it's a pain to find the button combo to revert it.
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alfaniner
Penultimate Amazing
Whatever it was, it wasn't "Mute".
Wudang
BOFH
Or the button combo is so complicated it's easier to ask "Are you an octopus or otherwise 8-limbed? No, ok so press the windows key and type 'regedit'"
bruto
Penultimate Amazing
I have a similar issue from time to time with my laptop, in which suddenly the headphone jack does not switch over. I thought it might be a hardware failure, as this laptop has suffered from body flex, and I had to reseat the memory once and reinforce the bottom with a metal plate (cheap Dell!), but just as I was about to open it up again, it got better again, and has stayed better. No static or sensitivity. So I'm guessing some software somewhere just every once in a blue moon goes bad. Rebooting, all the usual troubleshooting, did not work. It just decided one day to come back. If there is button to revert, I have yet to figure out what it might be.
Many, many moons ago - be late 1980s - a business I was a partner in produced software and provided the computer hardware for companies etc. to run local lotteries. We sold one setup to the local rugby club and they kept having "technical" problems. We found out that two people had an unusual way of typing "shift+another key" one would type it as: press shift key - take finger off shift key - type the character required and the other would attempt to type with two different fingers pressing both the shift and the other key at the same time like they were a reaction test. The thing is that when we were trying to figure it out we'd have them on the phione and be talking them through and say now press "shift-S" and they would say they had but of course it didn't do as it should. Very, very frustrating for all of us. Helped the younger me to learn not to take anything a user says on face value!
plague311
Great minds think...
The most difficult, yet vitally important, lesson to learn in all of IT.
Mongrel
Begging for Scraps
What I like in Win 11 is that I can edit the outputs available
I bet they also used Caps Lock to type capital letters as well
I don't know if we ever went to that advanced level with them.
Jack by the hedge
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Another Windows 11 update has now broken the auto-hide taskbar entirely.
Thanks to advice here, from Mongrel and others, I had got used to tapping the Windows key twice whenever the taskbar refused to reappear. That always reactivated it. Microsoft's new update has, to my amazement, somehow succeeded in killing that fix.
Why can't they just leave stuff the hell alone and stop breaking it?
Thanks to advice here, from Mongrel and others, I had got used to tapping the Windows key twice whenever the taskbar refused to reappear. That always reactivated it. Microsoft's new update has, to my amazement, somehow succeeded in killing that fix.
Why can't they just leave stuff the hell alone and stop breaking it?
plague311
Great minds think...
Pretty much every OS breaks sporadically during updates. If you uncheck the setting for "Automatically hide the taskbar" does the taskbar show up correctly? If you'd like I could provide a few command line options to see if something got corrupted. They don't usually take too long to run and can sometimes clear up other things as well.
One of them is:
sfc /scannow
That just runs a system file check. It runs a check against the windows repository and looks for corrupted files and then replaces them. That would be a good place to start. There are also a bunch of DISM commands, but those are generally to clean up or repair an image, which I'm not sure is really the issue here. I run the sfc and a DISM check on my system at home whenever I run into issues and it usually clears them up.
Jack by the hedge
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Yes the taskbar stays put if I disable autohide. Thanks, but I think I'm going to wait for Microsoft to fix it. The bug affects both my work and personal laptops - different brand machines - and a quick Google for "Windows 11 update broke autohide taskbar" hints that MS are aware they've screwed it up, so it's not a problem specific to my computer.
plague311
Great minds think...
Makes sense to me! Not many users here at work autohide the task bar so I haven't seen the issue pop up (pun intended) here in the office. Hopefully it's a quick turn around, and if Microsoft is aware of it and hasn't handed out a resolution then I don't think my solutions would work anyway. It would only work if they had a fix.
I do get a kick out of Dabop laughing at it like Linux doesn't have a ton of issues itself. Like in September when the updates themselves were broken and wouldn't work, or when an update broke all nvidia drivers, etc. I don't get the tribalism with OS's. I seriously don't.
novaphile
Quester of Doglets
Wow.
I must lead a charmed life.
Being using linux since 1996 and have never had a failed update.
plague311
Great minds think...
Perhaps, I don't know.
I'm sure that all Linux users have been using Linux forever and there has never, ever been a problem with the OS as long as the system has been around. I'm sure all of the forums and reddit posts about all of the issues that have been reported by users can be chalked up completely and entirely to user error. The systems, all of them in their entirety, are created, updated, and executed flawlessly.
What a fool I've been to use both windows and Linux, instead of only Linux.