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  • The EFI partition isn’t missing or, you’re right, it wouldn’t boot at all.

    If the /boot/efi isn’t set to nofail in fstab then it failing to mount would dump them into emergency mode. This could also be cause by something simple like a syntax error in fstab.

    It’s also possible that there’s a broken bootloader entry. For example, If the system was installed with LUKS encryption on the home directory and one of the boot entry doesn’t have the luks module. The system would boot but everything after that would fail because it can’t decrypt and mount /home.

    The screenshot isn’t useful, those BPF errors are likely a symptom of the original problem but they pushed the real error off screen. We’d need to see the output of journactl -xb in order to figure it out.

    e: I forgot my unhelpful advice: Tell her to try Arch.







  • For a complete Linux newbie, there’s something to be said for immutable distros. They really limit how badly you can break things.

    Once you’re more comfortable with the software, terminology and administration you may want something more flexible.

    Bazzite seems to be a really popular immutable distro. Don’t start with Arch unless you’re a masochist.




  • I’m not sure how you square that definition with what the OP wrote in the headline.

    They said that we wouldn’t need the Epstein files (the evidence collected by the FBI in order to prosecute this child sex trafficking ring) to prove DJT’s guilt if we just believed women.

    I hope you can, at least, see how that appears to be saying that “the evidence isn’t needed if we believe women.” and not “we should take womens claims seriously.”

    You’re right that there are two vastly different interpretations of that statement: (1). Take women seriously and (2). A woman’s accusation is a higher form of evidence.

    OP’s headline is, at best, poorly written but it’s very easy to understand why it appears to be using (2).