• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Steps to troubleshoot Windows:

    • Reboot, pray
    • Google the error, if any
    • Randomly change registry settings, delete files, install software on the advice of random Internet people/LLMs until the software works or the randomware kicks in.
    • Thank god you’ve never had to touch a Linux terminal, clearly a fate worse than death.
    • Reboot again, just in case
    • Ferus42@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Looks fairly similar to what you would do on Linux. Change registry to config file (unless you’re using Gnome, then it’s both). You’re right though, on Windows, people don’t usually have paragraph long commands to paste into the terminal to fix some issue. Instead, on Windows you have Microsoft support posts where a “Microsoft Community Support” non-employee pastes non-helpful boilerplate tech support copypasta which are somewhat adjacent to the user’s issue.