Ah I remember that one! Classic. I also remember a story about someone who lost an entire PC in their apartment. It was running and connected to the network, they could ping it, but couldn’t physically find it lol.

I have two, one is actually complicated and one was so obtuse that I never would have figured it out in a million years:

Actually complicated: I still don’t know how it happened, but somehow an update on Arch filled the boot partition with junk files, which then caused the kernel update to fail because of no disk space, which then kind of tanked the whole system. It took ages, but with a boot disk and chroot-ing back into the boot partition I eventually managed to untangle it all. I was determined to see it through and not reinstall.

Ridiculous: One day when using Ubuntu, the entire system went upside-down. As in, everything was working perfectly fine, but literally the screen was upside-down. After much Googling I had no luck figuring it out, then I accidentally found the solution - I’d plugged a PS4 controller into the USB on the laptop to charge it, and for some reason Ubuntu interpreted the gyroscope on the controller as “rotate the screen display” so when I moved it, the screen spun round. I only figured it out by accident when I plugged it back it and it spun back to normal lol.

You could call it… Ubuntu 24.10 the way things are going lol

I guess that’s kind of what’s going on with the Steam Deck, as in, it’s already set up and configured for Linux so you don’t need to make any choices or do anything especially, you just turn it on and away you go.

(Of course, you can install other distros and stuff on it, but I’d assume the vast majority of people don’t)

It accidentally opened Vim and was never seen again

I hopped for ages and finally landed on Arch (btw), and I thought I was settled. I’ve been on it for like two years now.

But lately I’ve been hearing the call of NixOS too…