Yeah, you’ll definitely want to make sure that computer is isolated. It doesn’t sound like it’s currently on a VLAN. The real danger isn’t just someone messing up that one machine, once they’re in, they’re behind your firewall and can potentially access anything else on your network. Smart home devices are often the next targets, things like light bulbs, security cameras, and especially Windows computers, which are usually easy to compromise if they’re on the same network.

You might be wondering, “How likely is that?” Honestly, very likely. Back when my website was online, it would get hit by hackers, mostly script kiddies, several times an hour.

In that case, I am officially challenging you. But if you do end up doing it. My instance is shutting down on Monday, so you won’t be able to tag me :(

Was thinking the same thing. This has to be possible, within reason of course

Do you at least have it on a VLAN?

I find they run even faster with Glorious Eggroll fork of proton

Hey, that’s pretty cool! Just make sure they’re not actually starting to build a hive inside your walls

I’m more surprised that Manjaro is so low.

Fruit?

I think they’re talking about the comically bad horror movies about birds

So what’s the difference between that and .world? Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but I don’t see any “about us” pages for these Lemmy servers

F

Musk’s voting machines?

Have you even tried the web UI?

Wow, good job tracking that down

If his drive is failing, and has bad sectors, windows will automatically repair damaged system files on boot. Also sounds like he’s having an issue with hibernation with the window server not starting back up after suspension.

Okay, assuming you’re being honest, it sounds like a hardware issue. Either your RAM is corrupting, or your hard drive is prone to errors. The good news is that you have options to daily drive Linux without ending up in a situation where you have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Like I mentioned earlier, you absolutely need to be making snapshots. I’m currently running Manjiro, and I’ve completely borked my system like 10 times already. But when I set up my system, I made sure my main partition was BTRFS, which has allowed me to roll back easily through both the UI and in grub rescue mode.

I would also recommend that if you are going to continue to dual boot windows, make sure they’re on two separate physical drives. And don’t share stuff like your steam library, because windows likes to screw shit up, and steam will throw a fit if you make it read an NTFS drive on Linux.

Just don’t give up, keep posting questions, and maybe even come back and post stuff like specific crash reports and system info so we can help you better. :)

It’s 2025, if you’ve got the space to dual boot, you’ve got space for snapshots. There’s no reason not to set them up. Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, pick your poison. Disk is cheap, your time isn’t.

And if “simple stuff” is breaking your system, that tells me three things:

1. You’re still using apt-get instead of apt

2. You’re ignoring dependency warnings

3. You’re probably not fully understanding the commands you’re running — so RTFM

So yeah, I will be telling you to use Mint, with at LEAST daily snapshots.

I have four pieces of advice

1. btrfs file system for easy backup and recovery
2. Encrypt your drive
3. use an ad blocker everywhere
4. use virus total to scan anything you might be wary of, and if you really feel like you need an AV, they do exist for Linux.

I usually prefer Debian based systems, but when I finally ditched windows 3 weeks ago, I switched to Manjaro, and I’m loving it. You got this!

Their complacency makes me feel like they’re just making people feel like they have a choice

The way I see it, $HOME is for things I made. So I use ~/bin for my scripts