BTW, if you've got any idea why Windows 10, booted from a USB drive made in Linux doesn't see a NVME disk on a laptop, let me know. Right now I'm trying different tools to make the USB, in case Ventoy was messing something up.

Nevermind... INTEL CAN GO FUCK ITSELF!

For future reference for anyone having to install Windows 10 on Intel 11 gen CPUs.

https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1044458

You'd think Intel would think about pushing it's drivers to Microsoft well before release of their CPUs, so that the Windows spring update would have everything good to go. But noooo... Fuck Intel in the ass.

I haven't had to provide a "hard drive" driver to the installing OS ever since very early SATA days with Windows XP. Then Intel had to come along and fuck up everything...

At least there are 2 silver linings with this situation:
1) the laptop isn't mine, so this is the first and last time I'll have to deal with this bullcrap
2) Linux once again proves itself superior, because it wasn't phased by Intel's bullshit, and was able to perfectly see the NVME drive.

@icedquinn
EVERY TIME I look up dd, I find examples with a bunch of arguments that I've got no idea what they mean, and I'm never sure what I need to make a bootable usb, so I don't trust myself to not screw up big time. So I prefer a GUI tool that has proved itself reliable in the past.

@alyx dd if=boobs.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

@icedquinn @alyx I always add status=progress at the end, because with big iso's I get irrationally worried that it's stuck or broken.

@alyx I always go to an arch wiki page about usb bootable media to copy and paste the dd command for flashing isos (they even have weird commands for doing it with other tools like cp i think)

Also Etcher is the most overdone bullshit program i've ever seen, for something as simple as flashing an iso you have to use a whole electron app that takes a lot to compile, if you do that, and it even has telemetry which is enabled by default iirc

@alyx >yeah i flash my isos with tee

@alyx oof

@coolboymew @alyx do they work on Linux?

@Pendragon @coolboymew
Works fine on Linux, yes. But the laptop isn't for me, so I have to install Windows on it.

@coolboymew @alyx Sounds like AMD with their USB issues on Ryzen 3. I actualy experience those bugs often and it's annoying. Once a week my pc hard freezes without a bsod because of it. Always at like 3:30-4AM in the morning too

@ooignignoktoo @coolboymew
Strange... wasn't 3-4AM the usual auto-restart time for Windows auto-update?

@alyx @coolboymew normally it's like 2AM but it's not a windows update. It's something else I think. Only seems to happen when I use Google Chrome and surfing Youtube.

@ooignignoktoo @coolboymew
You should look at what other tasks Windows schedules around that time. Could be the drive optimizations or something going on.
If it happens consistently at around the same time, at night, it's very unlikely to have anything to do with the CPU. Hardware issues would cause completely random crashes, at random times of day. If it's consistent enough to notice it happens at night, it's either the OS, or some specific program that has something scheduled to take place at night.

@alyx @coolboymew I did have it crash on me earlier today randomly too. At about 7PM doing the same thing loading a youtube video in chromium. It always seems to freeze during that task. Not sure what is causing it though.

@ooignignoktoo @coolboymew
I sometimes get weird browser behavior with streaming video, but it doesn't even manage to completely crash the browser. I have my doubts that it can completely freeze a PC, even a Windows one. But you should try to switch your browser for a while, to try to eliminate this possibility.

@alyx @ooignignoktoo you should maybe close the browser when not using the PC

@ooignignoktoo @alyx close your browser periodically, especially when you see that it starts chugging

@brad
Rufus is a great tool... on Windows. I was looking for Linux tools.

BTW, another good one for Windows is YUMI.

@alyx Oh, gotcha. I don't even use Windows. For some reason I think I read "Manjaro" as Windows or something.
I tend to just use dd.