• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading “The lock screen is broken and doesn’t work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command.”

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        2 months ago

        Hah. Those used to be a lot more common, this is actually a bit of a blast from the past.

        Early graphical Linux interfaces were constantly breaking and telling you to go back to a terminal to restart your X server or fix whatever was broken manually.

        That used to be the “but you have to use the terminal” of very early Linux, back when “can you install Debian from scratch?” was the old “can you install Arch from scratch?”

        Man, I’m old.