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.

Do you at least have it on a VLAN?

I’m more surprised that Manjaro is so low.

And now my instance is shutting down 🤡

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.

Okay, I’ll give you wsl2, and the “average user experience” being better, but Windows is losing its identity with the IT and customization front. For both destroying the win32 control panel and locking down the shell so you can no longer customize it.

Somewhat ironically OSX recently added widgets to the desktop. Something Microsoft did years ago, removed it for no reason, and then added a flyout to tick almost the same check boxes.

As for me, the spike in resource usage and over saturation of “AI” was enough for me to decide to jump ship.

I’m currently attempting to daily drive Manjaro so maybe my opinion will change, but so far, it feels like home.

It’s valid to feel disappointed. Windows 7 was really stable.

My work still has a windows 7 machine with an uptime of something like 12 years.

Windows 7 will idle in the low megabytes. But why does 11 want to use 6-8 Gigs on idle for no good reason?

And it’s not like there’s that much difference between the two operating systems. One is just loaded up with electron wrappers and spyware

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

My point is if you’re paying anyone, it should be the maintainers and members of an open source project. But I’ve seen people host many other high bandwidth things for free so who knows.

Better than ever? What? Bloated than ever maybe.

Technically literate people could host the relays.

1. better computer literacy is always better
2. mas adoption -> more contributing -> more features like “share with friends”

Wow, so my decision to switch my machines over to Linux by win10 EOL really isn’t overkill.

I don’t really like this approach, not just because I was flagged as a bot, but because I don’t really like captchas. I swear I’m not a bot guys!

I’m out of the loop here

Are they including stuff written by intellisence and boiler plate for legacy code?