so i'm reinstalling linux because i fucked some shit up trying to modify my bootloader so that i can dual boot both linux and windows
my ass decided to ask chatgpt for instructions after finding nothing close to a helpful guide on google, and i ended up going on a 5.5 hour goose chase that ultimately ended with me getting no closer to achieving my goal. really, the only actual progress i made was enabling access to my windows drive without having to switch sata modes first (which i initially did have to).
also somehow my policykit agent stopped fucking working even though i never touched it so now i can't just move my files from one drive to another like i did when i first moved my files to linux because that required admin permissions and giving myself admin permissions doesn't fucking work anymore, so i had to back up my files to external drives before reinstalling
but for some fucking reason my pc refuses to mount the faster hdd due to some bullshit error. even when i managed to mount it using terminal i couldn't move files into it because it was "read-only" but then i couldn't make it read-write using terminal so i'm moving my giant 433gb osu folder into my slower hdd. i think i've left it open for 20 hours atp and it's only 70% complete. i could keep using my pc like normal in the process but i have chosen not to because i hate myself.
you might be asking, why am i reinstalling windows when i said i could just run the windows programs using an emulator? because 1. i don't want to go through the hassle of opening the emulator then opening the emulated program from there and 2. some of these programs suck so much ass on an emulator aaaaaaaa
i especially have a bone to pick with affinity and clip studio specifically. maybe it's because of my window manager of choice (hyprland) but affinity just looks wrong on linux. i had to reinstall it like 4 times to get something that "works" but then the graphics start tweaking when i switch modes. i've barely made anything on affinity but this is enough to pmo. in retrospect i should've just used figma instead of trying to install a program that isn't linux compatible & that i don't even use all that much anyway, but still.
and then there's clip studio. i've followed every guide on how to get csp working on linux and the only one that actually worked for me was the one that used a gui emulator (bottles) as a middleman. i tried out a version that used proton but it didn't fucking work. like i said, i hate the hassle of having to wait for bottles to open then opening clip studio from there, but my biggest problem is with the non-english fonts.
i wish i had a screenshot but basically any piece of non-english text turns into empty boxes. it's kind of a problem when 99.999% of csp's downloadable assets are not in english. every fucking material i have just has an indistinguishable wall of boxes as its title. i can kinda tell them apart based on the brush/material preview but it doesn't excuse the compatibility failure.
and no, switching languages doesn't solve the issue. maybe there's a fix somewhere out there but none of the guides i followed even acknowledged it as an issue. they just tell you how to get the base version working and assumes that nobody would even bother to check the assets page. it's so goddamn infuriating.
"why don't you just use krita?" i don't want to switch to krita cuz i don't want to miss out on all the limited-time free brushes! i like hoarding assets more than actually drawing and i know that's a fundamental problem with the way i approach art improvement but i think i'd rather reinstall windows than confront that aspect of me
if i'm being honest, i only installed linux because i wanted to play osu with less audio latency. and it works! it's probably the only program that works well if not better on linux. if i reinstall linux again, i'm only ever going to use it for web browsing, journaling and playing osu – 3 things that i know work without issues. but again that's like 99% of my pc usage so yeah i'll probably still continue to daily drive linux with windows as my "work setup".
really i think the tipping point was when i tried to run a python program and it just refused to recognize a python plugin even though i had it installed and could run it just fine. maybe the linux version works differently from the windows version in a way that made it unable to recognize the plugin? i don't know, but i wasn't going to waste even more time troubleshooting that shit.
so i just found out that the headphone jack does not work on my laptop. it worked fine on my pc so i assumed it would on laptop too but it doesn't & i'm too fucking stupid to understand any of these forum posts