China has ordered government offices to replace foreign-branded PCs and associated operating systems with alternatives that can be locally maintained. This includes dumping Windows in favor of Linux.
I have run both Unity and Deepin (currently really popular in China) and they’re great, but not really for me. They seem to be designed to have a really nice, clean, simple user experience, and they do, but that’s just not what I need. Beautiful window managers though. Really nice.
I should note also that the Deepin installer does not play well with certain NVMe storage, so be warned. I bricked a brand new drive with it lol.
Edit: drive bricked for an unknown reason more likely
How did an installer manage to brick a drive? I’ve messed up my drives a lot while learning how filesystems and partition tables work, but I have never been able to brick them (I actually tried once as an experiment). I wonder what they did to cause that.
on second thought, it may have been a function of it going to sleep since right after it completed the installation, it booted once, went to sleep, and never came back. the drive isn’t detected anywhere anymore, not in bios, not by nvme list, not by lspci. I went “huh weird” and just popped a spare ssd in, meaning to figure it out later and never remembered to go back to it. that drive is still in here doing nothing lol
so now that i say all that, it probably is sleep related.
Yeah, if it’s not detected by lspci or BIOS, I’d say it’s most likely dead forever. I’d say that it’s more likely to have been due to a defective drive than sleep. An NVMe drive like that is not easy to brick to that point. It would be either an electrical fault, or corruption of the controller firmware. There really isn’t anything else that would cause that, and I don’t see how sleep would have done it.
Hmm. Interesting. Those drives are very new tech to me (despite not really being that new lol) and idk much about them. Needless to say I’m nervous to try another one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Operating_System
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin
I have run both Unity and Deepin (currently really popular in China) and they’re great, but not really for me. They seem to be designed to have a really nice, clean, simple user experience, and they do, but that’s just not what I need. Beautiful window managers though. Really nice.
I should note also that the Deepin installer does not play well with certain NVMe storage, so be warned. I bricked a brand new drive with it lol.
Edit: drive bricked for an unknown reason more likely
Oof, sry for that bad luck. An installer bricking your hardware, that’s terrible.
How did an installer manage to brick a drive? I’ve messed up my drives a lot while learning how filesystems and partition tables work, but I have never been able to brick them (I actually tried once as an experiment). I wonder what they did to cause that.
Same question here. I would like to know how did it manage to “brick” that drive!
on second thought, it may have been a function of it going to sleep since right after it completed the installation, it booted once, went to sleep, and never came back. the drive isn’t detected anywhere anymore, not in bios, not by nvme list, not by lspci. I went “huh weird” and just popped a spare ssd in, meaning to figure it out later and never remembered to go back to it. that drive is still in here doing nothing lol
so now that i say all that, it probably is sleep related.
Yeah, if it’s not detected by
lspcior BIOS, I’d say it’s most likely dead forever. I’d say that it’s more likely to have been due to a defective drive than sleep. An NVMe drive like that is not easy to brick to that point. It would be either an electrical fault, or corruption of the controller firmware. There really isn’t anything else that would cause that, and I don’t see how sleep would have done it.Hmm. Interesting. Those drives are very new tech to me (despite not really being that new lol) and idk much about them. Needless to say I’m nervous to try another one