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Id love to believe this is to weed out the bad applicants.
People that answer "lol, I just want a job" actually get the interviews

Um, akshually it's a DNS issue not a router issue.
I think.
It looks like a router issue. But it's always a DNS issue

I installed endeavouros on my windows laptop.
The installer guided me through the partitioning, setting up systemd-boot, and it was all great.
I had to disable bitlocker in windows (not that bothered about) and secure boot in bios (also not that bothered about).

Ran smoothly dual booting both for about 4 months.
Then a windows update hit, and fucked the boot.

Thankfully, this is a common enough thing that there are plenty of tutorials out there.
A liveUSB of endeavouros, some tinkering, and I was back up and running.

The cause seems to be FastBoot, where windows keeps the boot partition mounted. What I think happens is that bios tries to read the boot partition, which is configured/loaded for windows (because it never cleaned up after itself due to FastBoot being on) and boots into windows.
Since turning off FastBoot, I haven't had any issues in the past 8 months.

Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!

Oh look, fediverse is still working.
You can share in the smug grin

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos

Does this mean I can install SteamOS on any device? We expect most SteamOS users to get SteamOS preinstalled on a Steam Deck or device that incorporates SteamOS. The only devices officially supported on SteamOS right now are Steam Deck and Legion Go S. We are working on broadening support, and with the recent updates to Steam and SteamOS, compatibility with other AMD powered PC handhelds has been improved.

If you are interested in installing SteamOS on your device and providing feedback, you can follow the instructions here.

here links to https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227

With instructions to install steamos and the note:

Currently, the only devices officially 'Powered by SteamOS' are Steam Deck and Legion Go S. We are working on broadening support, and with the recent updates to Steam and SteamOS 3.7, compatibility with other AMD powered PC handhelds has been improved.

So, it's unlikely to be smooth sailing. But it can be done, and steam is working on improving it.

There seems to be some forks out there that claim to improve desktop installation, but I have no idea how active or decent they are.

Personally, I think steam is missing a huge market slice by not creating a steamos for desktops.
However, they don't need it and probably don't want it. It's a market slice in a market they don't need or want: operating systems.
People that would use it likely already have steam on windows. So, it's not bringing in new customers (like the steam deck does).
People that game on Linux likely already use Steam Proton (which is an amazing contribution). So, no new customers by distributing a whole desktop OS.
It's starting a fight with Microsoft (which I think we all want), but with no real benefit to Steam.

I think steam is smart to stay in their lane of handheld OS and Linux tooling for gaming.
Let the desktop gaming distros be maintained by other people. Ideally steam would support those distros, but just maintaining Proton and generally pushing Linux gaming is still a huge contribution.

I'll trade you your gold for my petty insults

But they felt it. The whole building. Felt it.
And the clapped until their hands bled.

Maybe it's about redaction of the files

For someone that isn't a programmer that is wanting to understand what a script is doing... "Just read the commands" isn't going to work.

It's like speaking English and being given an instruction manual in French and being expected to understand how a machine is working. You will recognise some borrowed words, but you aren't going to understand it.
"Just read the french manual" or "just learn french" aren't going to work for a consumer wanting to get the machine to work.

There's a joke about wage gaps here