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0 pointsjohnchristopher5y ago0 comments

> When linux works it’s way better. But when it breaks it’s harder to fix than windows.

> I tried out pop!_os due to people on HN liking it. At first it was great. But then I realised I can’t transfer files between drives. I thought maybe it was just my desktop computer, but the same issue happened when I put it on my laptops. So I went to kubuntu, no transfer issues, but trying to fix the weird ui issues compared to gnome make it frustrating.

There's something to be said about how it's easier for users to jump to another distro to fix what's most likely some permissions issues in the mounted folder. Rough dumb bugs/misconfiguration_of_the_distro like that are sad.

It always seems to me that fixing things in Linux desktops and windows feel like two very different things. I might delude myself in thinking I understand what's going on in the distro but Windows registry and command line instructions in windows always seem a bit too magical to me (that's surely because I am not used to it, despite having grown up on windows).

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philliphaydon5y ago· 2 in thread

I don’t think the transfer issue is permission related. I have a 2tb Drive partitioned as 1tb exfat and 1tb as ext4.

Windows can transfer to and from exfat no issue.

Any district (except pop) seems to transfer without issue on either partition.

But pop installed on my desktop and 2 laptops, it transfers a file less than 1.4gb without issue. Anything larger and it transfers for about 1 hour then faults. I end up with corrupt file on the other side.

This sort of issue should not even exist out of the box. Basic functionality should just work.

johnchristopherOP5y ago

> But pop installed on my desktop and 2 laptops, it transfers a file less than 1.4gb without issue. Anything larger and it transfers for about 1 hour then faults. I end up with corrupt file on the other side.

Ah, yes. I was thinking about /mnt/$USER/directory not having sufficient rights (it happens).

Slower transfer speed and failures are something else.

> This sort of issue should not even exist out of the box. Basic functionality should just work.

Might also be a unique combination between HW and software.

philliphaydon5y ago

> Might also be a unique combination between HW and software.

I thought so, I tried with 2 different external harddrives, but then I noticed transferring on my desktop between 2 internal drives had the same issue. Copying to the same drive / different partition appeared to be OK.

I posted on pop_os on reddit and they were gonna help me but I ended up down a rabbit hole which resulted in me on Kubuntu without any issues other than a couple of UI issues which I can live with, and eventually fix.

seba_dos15y ago

I have grown up on Windows and repairing Windows was usually like "not sure why it happens, let's try this set of various utilities hoping that one of them will fix it, if neither does then let's reinstall on top of existing filesystem, if it still doesn't help let's make a clean reinstall". On GNU/Linux though I have yet to find an issue I'm not able to get to the bottom of and at least understand why it happens (well enough to file a useful bug report) since I started using it in 2006. I have never reinstalled a GNU/Linux distro because of a software problem, and I've been breaking them quite a lot with my tinkering.

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