As someone who’s written pipelines who do exactly that on Windows, macOS, Linux across x86_64, aarch64, and MIPS, with optimized, unoptimized, instrumented for ASAN, instrumented for TSAN, and instrumented for coverage, and does it all in a distributed containerized workflow… It’s not as easy as it sounds. Honestly macOS is way more of a hassle to deal with than Linux.

Unless you need ROS. ROS is utter garbage. ROS is popular in robots. ROS is, unlike its name, not actually an operating system but rather a system of tools and utilities which do not follow any standards and certainly not the OS standards. I literally hate ROS. I would burn that shit to the ground and rebuild-the-world if I had the time to.

1. have an nvidia GPU

2. have Fedora

3. download RPM package of drivers for Red Hat (after all, Fedora and Red Hat are… compatible, right?)

4. Everything goes fine

5. Six months later, upgrade to a new version of Fedora

6. oops, kernel panic at boot after the upgrade, and no video to troubleshoot after UEFI boot

7. figure out how to boot into a recovery partition from UEFI

8. figure out how to enable a serial console over a USB device

9. figure out how to connect to the serial console from another computer using another USB device

10. figure out what the kernel panic is from (not the upgrade, but the driver which wasn’t upgraded)

11. figure out how to uninstall the incorrectly installed driver

12. figure out how to install the correct driver

That was a fun three week OS upgrade.

I have had to un-teach dumb things that people learn from Windows.

A menu item to run a GUI program as root it is indeed a rather absurd scenario. It suggests that you want to violate the admin/user barrier which is intended to be difficult to surpass except in certain circumstances.

There can be a lot of things under the hood that are necessary to run a GUI program as root depending on whether you’re using X11 or Wayland or something more esoteric. It’s doable though.

But instead of doing that, why not just learn how to use the command line? Every administrative task can be done via the command line, but not every administrative task has a GUI counterpart. So you’re going to need to learn to use the command line sooner or later.

If a website requires so few characters that I have to create custom rule in my password manager for it… then it’s a website I’m strongly inclined not to use.

Sadly, a lot of these websites deal with finances or employment.

Attempting to kill init means that something tried to kill PID 1. That’s… abnormal outside of a shutdown. But it can be normal during shutdown. So uhh… yeah: if it continues to be a problem then it needs to be reported and fixed by your distribution. What distribution are you using?

I see kernel panics at shutdown most often on Arch-based distros after updating system packages.

It sucks when it happens during shutdown but it’s typically not going to cause other problems… except perhaps not automatically booting if you wanted to reboot instead of shutdown.