SayCyberOnceMore

Agree.

Years ago, I was troubleshooting something (can’t remember what) on Ubuntu and realised the package had fixed the bug, but it wasn’t in the repos yet… like months behind.

Looked at Arch with it’s up to date repos, moved over and never looked back.

I’ve reported bugs since, watched the package get updated and seen the improvement on my system… now that’s what it should be like.

Ah, I see what you’re asking now.

I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.

Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.

Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.

We’ve not watched live TV for ages and it’s weird sitting through adverts now when we’re at friends / family

We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it’s our central AV device. The Audio is sync’d off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.

I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.

TV programs…

Similar here.

MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch

Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it’s still ok

Thanks for the TL;DW, I can go about my Arch updates without fear now…

Never heard of it, but still, sad to see something ending… seems like it was a good learning resource.

It does seem like a hardware issue to me too…

It might be a driver issue… Windows does have the resources to test them more than Linux community, so - kinda hardware related - but Framework should be able to help here.

And as others have said, try memtest, I did on a laptop with similar issues to yours and found the RAM was the culprit. Personally, I recommend using this version, not the passmark version: https://memtest.org/

It’ll boot from a USB stick

It will take hours.

For Linux use ‘sudo journalctl -xe’ (from memory) - it’ll explain the issues it finds, as best it can. You’ll probably see something in there

If you’re dual booting with Windows open the event log viewer and check under System (from memory) and see if there’s any red X warning logs… esp. Hardware ones.

On the up-side, at least you have a chance of fixing it… If that happened on a Windows box, you’d be reaching for the gun / installation media by now

🤔 Maybe I’ll try that next time… I kinda feel loyal to Grub, it’s been my friend for sooo looong.

Might help to draw it out on paper

But, when you’re done, you’ll be the Encrypted Dual-Boot God !

Why not… or try another brick in the wall

Ah, yeah, you’ve just reminded me, I must move my stuff off proxmox when I get a chance.

I tried that proxmox backup thing when I first set it up, good god what a complex mess… backup & recovery needs to be as simple and as smooth as possible.

Pretty much everytime I try to do fancy stuff with the bootloader I get pretty close to nuking systems. Worst was my 1st UEFI system where I was trying to get rEFInd to show multiple OS to boot from… eventually gave up and went back to the warm embrace of GRUB

Ah, have you found the land of IoT? Bricks everywhere, you’d love it.

Ah yes, reminds me of messing with my 1st pfSense firewall… I learned how good their recovery process was that evening

Nah, if you’re installing something user friendly (ie Linux Mint just for an example) it’ll work 1st time, guaranteed - or your money back.

But… you’ll only really learn once you’ve fubar’d something… just like falling off riding a bike

But I notice that they don’t say they’ll ban everyone from Feddit…?

So, maybe there’s some hope for them yet…

Didn’t even know it was a thing, thanks for sharing

Harsh (to yourself), but fair

Without repeating my other comment. This approach saved my life many times