Can't boot notebook at all anymore

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 11:37 +0200, Xen wrote:
> You can spend a 1000 more hours troubleshooting an issue using Linux
> or you can use an outside viewpoint to quickly ascertain whether or
> not there is a hardware issue that would also effect other operating 
> systems.

Any other OS would do - FreeBSD, whatever. As long as it is a
fundamentally different code base.

> The trouble with Linux is that there are a thousand variables that
> can be wrong.

Just like Windows. But the important point is that there is very little
intersection between the thousand things that go wrong with Windows and
the thousand things that go wrong with Linus, so if there is a common
problem when booting them, the problem is most likely external to the
OS.

> With Windows you know three things:
> 
> - it is not going to be a driver issue

Wrong. Unless it's the Windows that was delivered pre-installed on the
hardware.

> To limit yourself to not having any outside vantage points at all,
> means your ability to know what is wrong just goes down the drain.

Not really - but if you can use a different OS, you get a different
viewpoint as you say, and it is foolish to refuse that for ideological
reasons.

Using a  different OS is just one of many tools. If you can't (or
won't) use that tool, you can still troubleshoot very effectively using
the many other tools. I think to say that "your ability to know what is
wrong just goes down the drain" is overstating the case.

> And your troubleshooting time goes up almost infinitely.

And that is definitely overstating the case.

Regards, K.

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