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Newb here, help needed w/ Bazzite (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by Necroscope0@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I have been getting green screen of death on this new computer build of mine. This new computer is the first time I have run linux as I am NOT paying Microsoft any more of my money. The green screens started happening immediately I had originally thought it was due to old drivers at first but I updated every last thing I could find and it is still happening. AI told me that it could be a corrupted file system and suggested a command but it did not seem to do anything and I do not know why. Please help with this and any other suggestions on why I may be greenscreening. It is very intermittent, if I am online for 17 hours it will happen once or twice. Anyway, here is the command the AI gave me and its results...

fsck / btrfs --check --repair fsck from util-linux 2.40.4 If you wish to check the consistency of a BTRFS filesystem or repair a damaged filesystem, see btrfs(8) subcommand 'check'.

Probably a super newb question but I am a super newb here in Linux lol

X870 RX9070 XT Ryzen 9800X3D

Thanks in advance

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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

If ai gives you something to try it's better than nothing. But I was going to suggest another distro if someone else hadn't. Thanks ai...

[–] Xuntari@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Doing nothing is way better than running random commands suggested by AI, or anyone for that matter, if you don't know what it does. I've seen AI suggest to run rm -rf ~/, which is obviously never a good idea.

[–] Necroscope0@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What would that command do? Not obvious to this newb. Format everything?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think there may be some safeguards in place so that it doesn't, but yeah. It reads something like (rm) remove/delete, (-rf) remove/delete the folder, (~/) do this recursively until you hit root (Unix equivalent of C:).

I may have some of that parsed incorrectly, I haven't taken the plunge into Linux quite yet. As soon as I figure out what I did wrong in my current hardware build I will install Linux. Probably Mint.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It wouldn't remove /.

(r)e(m)ove

-(r)ecusively

(f)orce

~ /home/thisuser

/ just reinforces that we are referring to the ~ directory itself

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Thanks! It's been a while since I've used Linux terminal commands.

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