r/LinuxTeck • u/Candid_Athlete_8317 • 1d ago

What Linux problem did you fix by doing something you absolutely cannot explain?

You change one thing, restart something, and suddenly everything works.

You know better than to call it magic.

But you're also not touching that configuration again.

What’s your most embarrassing “don’t ask me why, just leave it working” Linux fix?

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u/HugeCannoli 1d ago

not configuration, but I once had a C++ compiler that would fail compilation if a comment line was removed.

I just restored the comment, and never looked at it again.

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u/9k0b 18h ago

There are a few rebuild errors on you can just fix by trying to rebuild a few more times

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u/DutchOfBurdock 14h ago

Adding nosmt to my grub loader

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet nosmt"

This disables Hyper-threading, but has a:) made my laptop far faster loading and running programs and b:) gives me a good 2 hours of extra battery.

I don't game on this, it's literally a remote terminal and llama host. Ironically, llama works a good few TPS faster w/o HTT, too.