Is there some easy command line that will fix this? I don't know grub very well 
For context I was reinstalling vlc, I guess I should have updated first
Is there some easy command line that will fix this? I don't know grub very well
For context I was reinstalling vlc, I guess I should have updated first
Think it's more of an arch thing than general Linux .
But yeah stuff like this is why Linux will never break into the mainstream end user market.
this kind of stupid stuff is prevalent on all distros. One time I had my ubuntu installation broken because apt decided to overwrite my fstab for some reason. Thankfully I knew how to fix it, but most users wouldn't
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SteamOS is Arch too which is crazy to me. Everything is flatpak though.
Yep, this is what happens when people recommend distros other than Ubuntu to beginners. (Saying this as an ubuntu-using beginner)
Tbf manjaro is one of the distros that just seems to work right away and I'm lazy
Fair enough, and I'm sure that it does work right away. I just think that in the linux world so many people are keen to flex their independence and therefore don't recommend Ubuntu cos it's "uncool". Beginner linux users will then try another distro and will end up with these mad problems that are hard to troubleshoot.
I use Ubuntu because of the so-called "network effect". If I have some problem, odds are some other poor bugger will have had the problem beforehand and there will be some guide or forum post somewhere helping me to solve it. Oh, and I haven't had a game-changing error in Ubuntu for years now. It Just Works (for me).
Anyway, stay positive and I hope you fix your problem. At the very least you'll learn something new about Linux, I'm sure. Good luck!
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Yes, and I understand the concern. However, we're talking about beginners here. I think that a beginner will typically care more about stability and ease of troubleshooting rather than the politics of snaps vs flatpak vs deb vs appimages vs...
A new ubuntu may eventually care to learn about the differences between packages, and may end up changing distro because of that. But until they reach that confortable stage I think that prioritizing convenience, app availability, and ease of troubleshooting is more important for a new user than getting into package politics.
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Fair enough. I've heard good things about Mint.
Manjaro is Arch if it didn't talk about safe words or consent first.
I still use Ubuntu and I'm fairly advanced. Though snaps kill system performance if you don't have an SSD
SNAP BAD
UBUNTU SERVER BAD B/C SNAPD
SNAPD KILL YOUR SERVER WITH AUTOMATIC UPDATES.
THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCEMENT.