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Actually reading error messages is an apparently very rare skill. Almost always, if you just google what it tells you, you'll hit something... Yet I constantly
by megaman22 9y ago
Actually reading error messages is an apparently very rare skill. Almost always, if you just google what it tells you, you'll hit something... Yet I constantly see people automatically click through popups milliseconds after they appear, only to fume about things not working. It takes a surprising amount of effort to get them to do it over and slow down long enough to figure out what went wrong.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoI confess, I was very guilty of that at my old job, which was very fast paced. Whenever reflexively closing the pop up resulted in things not going as I expected, I would, indeed, do it over, slow down and carefully read the messages.
- nikofeyn 9y agoi would just like to get error messages that actually said something more than something went wrong. yea, no shit something went wrong, i already know that, but what and why and how do i fix it are questions i want answered. i know the code knows what went wrong, so just tell me.
- digi_owl 9y agoWhy i love the older parts of Linux, but hate the more recent DE centric stuff. Because the older, unix derived, stuff will tell you front and center what went wrong (unless it is so wrong that all the kernel can do is barf a hex dump of the memory region on screen). The newer stuff will come up with unhelpful messages or just an eternally spinning pointer, and yet they are supposedly bringing Linux to the desktop. F that. And i wonder how many times now i have fed a Windows error code into a search term and found a bunch of people asking all manner of channels (both Microsoft and otherwise) for help and get nothing (W10 don't like the card reader on a tablet i have, and all i can find is that maybe, just maybe, MS screwed up the driver. But Intel seems to no longer provide any usable chipset bundle...).