I usually see the reverse. People who work with computers making every effort NOT to need to help.
My favorite is a friend who does techsupport for a datacenter. He always asks “wait, this computer you’re having trouble with, can you lift it? Would you say it’s smaller than your fridge? Oh, sorry, then I can’t help you”
My friend doesn’t know his linux password, and can’t download anything without it. But he is too impatient to figure out how to reset it. While I am stubborn and will sit at my computer till i fix an audio issue, or any problem I have.
Yes it is real, and I think it is auto login. Idk anything about Linux. He just downloads everything via a program called Discover. I never asked which Linux distro he was using.
I am very sure he’s just installing flatpaks, it’s likely kde’s discover. Still he could just enter their boot from a live boot and chroot into the OS and do passwd (user) to change any password I believe unless it’s encrypted or sumthing which would probably not let you autologin in the first place.
idk if you need help but you should be able to just install another linux OS. Just cli might be mkre efficient but one with DE probably should wotk too but not like it makes a difference. Anyways you mount the drives in mnt maybe and in their folders example: “mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt” (root directory) or “mount /dev/nvme0n2 /mnt/home” and the boot directory and so on. I think there’s a file called fstab that contains where to mount everything you can just search it with the commandline or search it up (if you kniw what partitikn the root directory is in just mount it and search “find /mnt -name fstab” it probs is on /etc/fstab tho or something) (You can also just check the mounted drives in the OS usinf that file using cfdisk /dev/(drive), probably like /dev/nvme0n1 but still, you can also do fdisk -l to list drives and partitions or use something like gnome disks or kde disks or whatever) where it is. Idk the full name so you could also search that up. then when everything is mounted you can probably just do “chroot /mnt” and “passwd (username)” and change it.
Also one of the reasons they say people should try manual installs, but I doubt that person would be on on linux if hw had to manual install it. I mean I probably wouldn’t either if I had to manual install it from the first time. I was and probably still am not that good at reading manual and documentation.
(btw this assumes you know nothing just in case, well not nothing nothing but you know. I am sure you could probably fix the issue if you were the one having it and that you already knew at least some of these stuff, probs most or all.)
still hope this helps in any way.
(also sorry for any typos im on phone and ofc i use no autocorrector.)
“I used to work in IT you know” often gets followed by “what’s a browser tab?”
I once had a caller claim he was one of the dudes that invented the internet. I was like … well you certainly haven’t kept up with things since then…
I usually see the reverse. People who work with computers making every effort NOT to need to help.
My favorite is a friend who does techsupport for a datacenter. He always asks “wait, this computer you’re having trouble with, can you lift it? Would you say it’s smaller than your fridge? Oh, sorry, then I can’t help you”
I haven’t troubleshot windows in years. I fix switches, firewalls, Linux, and some mac issues.
Its like I can’t fix a BMW or Audi but can still work on other cars.
My friend doesn’t know his linux password, and can’t download anything without it. But he is too impatient to figure out how to reset it. While I am stubborn and will sit at my computer till i fix an audio issue, or any problem I have.
is this real? how long has he not known his password for? is it autologin?
Yes it is real, and I think it is auto login. Idk anything about Linux. He just downloads everything via a program called Discover. I never asked which Linux distro he was using.
I am very sure he’s just installing flatpaks, it’s likely kde’s discover. Still he could just enter their boot from a live boot and chroot into the OS and do passwd (user) to change any password I believe unless it’s encrypted or sumthing which would probably not let you autologin in the first place.
It looks like kde’s discover. He is too lazy to fix it himself, and I don’t know how to tell him how.
idk if you need help but you should be able to just install another linux OS. Just cli might be mkre efficient but one with DE probably should wotk too but not like it makes a difference. Anyways you mount the drives in mnt maybe and in their folders example: “mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt” (root directory) or “mount /dev/nvme0n2 /mnt/home” and the boot directory and so on. I think there’s a file called fstab that contains where to mount everything you can just search it with the commandline or search it up (if you kniw what partitikn the root directory is in just mount it and search “find /mnt -name fstab” it probs is on /etc/fstab tho or something) (You can also just check the mounted drives in the OS usinf that file using cfdisk /dev/(drive), probably like /dev/nvme0n1 but still, you can also do fdisk -l to list drives and partitions or use something like gnome disks or kde disks or whatever) where it is. Idk the full name so you could also search that up. then when everything is mounted you can probably just do “chroot /mnt” and “passwd (username)” and change it.
Also one of the reasons they say people should try manual installs, but I doubt that person would be on on linux if hw had to manual install it. I mean I probably wouldn’t either if I had to manual install it from the first time. I was and probably still am not that good at reading manual and documentation.
(btw this assumes you know nothing just in case, well not nothing nothing but you know. I am sure you could probably fix the issue if you were the one having it and that you already knew at least some of these stuff, probs most or all.)
still hope this helps in any way.
(also sorry for any typos im on phone and ofc i use no autocorrector.)