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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

    I will say however, I've encountered a few things that were unsolvable because I wasn't a professional coder with tons of time on my hands. Unfortunately the only solutions were "attempt workarounds" and "wait. :("

    But at least in that case:

    • You can generally narrow down this is the case vs. your own config issues.
    • Somebody else has the same problem.
    • Barring all that, you can bug report!

    I run Tumbleweed though, sometimes things happen. (But it's still shockingly stable!)

    I wouldn't expect people running Mint or Debian to face this nearly as much.

    The particular most recent instance I had:All my KDE services were crash-restarting on startup because QT didn't like my drawing tablet or something. Truly bizarre. Bug reporting lead to resolution!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

    I will say however, I've encountered a few things that were unsolvable because I wasn't a professional coder with tons of time on my hands.

    Oh, yeah. That's still true. I've hit those as well.

    Though at least with open source stuff, I usually find the issue solved when I try again a year or so later. (Maybe not how I would have solved it, but there's typically at least more and better options.)