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rubber_chicken joins China in scrapping Windows for Linux
For real, this is such a coincidence. As I wrote about a few times here, I got a Linux laptop, running the aforementioned UOS, in China. I kept putting off making the switch for several months. I wanted to back up some photos from my phone to my computer and figured I could unplug it and use that usb-c port. The file transfer lasted something like a minute before my computer shut down from low battery. That's all it take for it to drop from 100% to 5% or wherever that's set. The manufacturer filed for bankruptcy 5 years ago so I doubt a replacement battery is in the cards, so the time to jump to Linux is now.
I found a guide to backing up a Windows machine to a Linux machine on the same network, so I fired up the linux machine, got on the wifi, found the command prompt and pasted in the very first. It's balking at a sudo because I don't have root. I search the error message and find out how to get root and . . . I need a WeChat account.
I've never gotten a WeChat account. I know it requires the assistance of somebody who has a WeChat account but I never really looked into how big of a deal that is. Apparently people only have a few verification slots per year. Also I'm seeing the possibility of linking a bank card to bypass that verification. Huh, how about that. It didn't ask me for verification, even without a bank card. OK, I got to scan the QR code on my computer to "request root access." I wonder where that request went. Well, it's been a few minutes so I'm thinking China, where it's 3 AM.
In the meantime, I used a different usb-c port to back up my documents folder to my phone, so I'm not entirely SOL if the Windows machine dies.
I would never install a Linux distro that doesn't give me root access by default and makes me ask another party for it. It's my goddamn computer. That's some RedStarOS BS.
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