LUKS wouldn't accept my password, no matter how simple it was.
Turns out a BIOS update somehow messed up RAM settings which caused memory errors. And as LUKS needs a lot of memory for some of it's description operations bit flips can cause all of that to fail.
I feel you. God I wish there was a company taking ownership in building, selling and supporting a batteries-included Desktop Linux distro where all these quality-of-life niceties that are working so well by default on Windows (and MacOS?), would be working out of the box on Linux without any user maintenance or need to read tutorials or wikis, and also be tested together on various hardware combos so that I have assurance that one of those components updating wouldn't brick my system.
I'd pay a $100-200 yearly subscription for such a Linux distro.
I remember wasting over an hour trying to get hibernate working on my company provided Ubuntu laptop and failing miserably. Or Gnome not having the option to disable the touchpad when an external mouse is plugged in, and the extension made to fix this not working because I'm using Wayland. I love Linux on the server side, but I just don't have time to deal with frustrating bullshit issues caused by this bazaar-engineering on the desktop side, even if it's FOSS. I'd rather pay and have something that works.
The closest thing I found was Gecko Linux (based on Opensuse Tumbleweed) or Nobara Linux (based on Fedora) but even there YMMV.
> I love Linux on the server side, but I just don't have time to deal with frustrating bullshit issues caused by this bazaar-engineering on the desktop side, even if it's FOSS. I'd rather pay and have something that works.
Which is fair. As an enthusiast that enjoys nitpicking my config files to make it all work perfectly, I've slowly come to understand people that don't want to do that. Sometimes you just want to get your work done, and it can definitely be frustrating when every utility has a different config file format, some don't even have config files but instead use gconf, some require a restart and some don't, some rely on new libraries that your distro doesn't have yet, every application has a different-looking UI... it can be a frustrating experience if you just want a MacOS or Windows-like experience. And unfortunately that level of simplicity isn't quite a thing yet in the Linux world.
LUKS wouldn't accept my password, no matter how simple it was.
Turns out a BIOS update somehow messed up RAM settings which caused memory errors. And as LUKS needs a lot of memory for some of it's description operations bit flips can cause all of that to fail.
That was frustrating!