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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Thinkpad t560 wont boot debian (feddit.rocks)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It installs but when i try to boot it wont. When i select the hdd in the boot menu it does nothing. Ubuntu server and fedora works but i woud like debian

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[–] clubb 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From my personal experience, ubuntu (lts or not), has a tendency of nuking itself randomly. It's happened more than one time to me, to shit off my PC, eat something, return to a broken installation that doesn't boot. And I've got plenty of experience with fedora just not doing things, like mtp, vulkan on flatpaks, I've had it crash on login (on x11), and had gnome apps constantly crashing (on wayland). Currently, I'm using debian, and I've never had any issues with it, other than outdated packages, which is relatively minor

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thank you for sharing your experiences! While my personal experiences with these distros don't quite match yours, I do appreciate your openness in this regard.

Just to be clear, it's not my intent to persuade OP to a specific distro of my liking. Rather, I was interested to know why they would rather troubleshoot their booting issues on Debian instead of returning to distros that have shown to work.