I don’t have admin rights at work so can’t install WSL.

But for whatever reason, Virtualbox is something I’m allowed to install. So I did. Now I just use Debian for everything via Virtualbox, IT dept be damned

Perhaps not stability, but certainly the ability to understand a problem and fix things is why I use Linux. On Windows or MacOS you just get “Oops, something unexpected happened”, or if youre lucky “Error -2847”.

On linux you can read the journalctl or have a poke in /var/log/ and actually find an answer that’s more helpful than “reinstall the operating system / program”

I thought this said Australian high speed train, and my first thought was “yeah but it only would have been doing 80kph”

Is that common?

I live on the other side of the world, but I bet you anything you like that my petrol prices will double too. It will cost twice as much to heat my home, and because my country is so big and so far away from everything, the cost of any goods I buy will increase significantly due to the additional price of the fuel required to get it to me.

I had no choice. I couldn’t vote for that dickhead if I wanted to. America voted and I’m worse off for it.

I used to think so too, but my pi-hole just died the other week after four years of uptime. Couldn’t work it out, finally pulled the SD card out to reinstall the OS and found my laptop wouldn’t recognise it.

Made me glad I don’t run my mailserver on a Pi anymore!

The only Windows PC I use is my work computer.

GPO blocked WSL.

I can’t even escape to a command line with the right flavour of slashes between directories. For eight hours a day, all hope is lost.

One is an error margin, the other a factor of safety!

Just because the Americans are asleep doesn’t mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!

Heck, I’m not sure we’ve even got the hang of English half the time.

I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows

Same lol. The casual observer wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Windows XP and my Debian install, bar for the fact that I have a search bar in the start menu.

Infinitely disappointed it’s not this one

My uni also provided MATLAB, but I just used Octave instead for all assignments that required it and was never asked about it or told I couldn’t.

Sadly no, because while Android is based on Linux, it is so far removed that the kernel is wildly different. Some teams such as mobian, SFOS, postmarketOS, etc. have got fair dinkum Linux running on android devices though.

I’ve been daily driving a Lenovo X230 tablet for the last four years. I use Xournal++ to take notes with the pen in classes and at work. Works great!

Haha thanks. I think it’s a lost cause! Perhaps I shouldn’t have worded the post the way I did.

I suspect this is what I’ll have to do. I was hoping to avoid it as that’ll take a weekend of copying, but I might just have to bite the bullet.

I’m not using Windows. I run Debian on this server.

The bulk of external enclosures that money can buy tell the computer they’re plugged into that the disks have logical sector sizes of 4096 bytes, apparently for compatibility with >2TB drives on Windows XP.

I do not need compatibility with Windows XP as the current year is 2024. My disk has logical sectors 512 bytes in size, but the external enclosures don’t report that. I want to know how I can mount the disk anyway, despite the enclosure’s attempts to thwart me. I know the disk is fine, as it is detected with 512 byte sectors and mounts happily via SATA.

It’s never been in a Windows machine.

The only enclosure I have that works out of the box is one of those “SATA to USB adaptors” rather than a bona fide “3.5 inch drive enclosure”. It’s not ideal for long-term use.

I wonder if there’s a place to find out if any given make/model of enclosure will report the sector size as 512 bytes. Then, presumably, one could purchase an enclosure off that list and be confident the disk will be readable.

Yes, the last code block in my OP shows the result of attempting to mount /dev/sdc1 normally: mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist.

Though I do not believe it is required as I can mount other drives to /mnt just fine, I have attempted to make /met/tmp and mount there to no avail.