Finally, Bluescreen in LINUX 

having a bsod feels so cursed yet so cool in linux

The good thing is that if you dont want to trigger a BSOD it will probably never happen on linux, not even enough times to count it on your hand on a lifetime. its just there for debugging purposes of your own machine mostly which is a great thing, but not like windows does where a tiny error can make your pc stop instantly and remove all unsaved work

imagine how Linux in blue screen looks like windows xp installation

The QR code does have some use... As someone that has messed around a good while with Linux's early boot for various reasons, one for various reasons one of the most painful things is not being able to copy/paste, in an environment where you don't have a modern terminal, ssh and most of the times not even internet being able to "copy" lengthty text off of the system is a blessing in its own even if its just whatever is on screen (in fact i can already see myself abusing that as a rudimentary early-boot clipboard instead of going through the "effort" of including qrgen in the initrd) However this look to me like a very early iteration of something useful... Not production ready imho 1) it should be integrated with journald so that an application can set custom text for the qr code. 2) it should allow listing multiple errors and NOT stop at the first one, many pieces of software log a generic "im ded" as first message and then add a more detailed explanation in a following line when they crash 3) in modern linux distros you can break into a limited terminal if the boot fails midway through (how limited depends on the boot phase), i wonder if this is well integrated with it but judging by the rest of the functionality inhave some doubts... 4) the qr overriding text? Seriously? No error handling whatsoever on the lsyout? 5) this doesnt appear to be aimed at replacing the panic, since it couldn't anyways, so why not make it more functional? Use the graphic mode so the qr is not huge and support AT LEAST newlines... Even a scrolling textbox is not that hard at the legeo of system functionality this is meant to kick in at... Idk it seems really rushed and kinda a solution asking for a problem considering it seems barely effective even for the basic task of error reporting to end users... Sheesh that was a lot!

"windows fault in nonwindows area" had me dead

You know you're deep into the Linux world when effectively emulating bsod sounds like a cool demonstration

"something happed" Thanks Lennart, very cool

In case you want to talk more about the mysterious Easter egg in the video, feel free to join the discord server: flies.sh/discord

Hey, it's really cool to see techfly create Linux content

To be fair, an error screen in event of an error occuring is something that should have been implemented a while back. Its a relatively simple feature that saves so much frustration for people new to Linux who dont want to be sifting through logs.

A blue screen in Linux is an interesting concept, but I like it! It’s a screen you won’t ever see, but the more fun notes Linux takes from Windows like more Windows 11 application compatibility via wine, what not to do with Linux, the more of a suitable and fun option Linux will be to everyone!

if you had quoted `”$TEXT”`, the spaces wouldn’t have collapsed

"The Windows have already breached our defenses, and worst of all, he could Bluescreen anyone of us..."

Love how much effort your put into this. Most journalists can't even show a single picture of this feature.

I'm in favor of this as long as it presents info that would help a Linux newbie solve the issue.

now someone animate bad apple in it

Now combine htop with sudo pacman -Syyu to make unpredictable updates, and now you have a complete windows copy

If the QR codes will lead to useful wiki pages about the relevant errors - this will be fune)

finally, a feature as good as shift+ctrl+win+alt+l

Wow! Thanks for the "feature" systemd devs! It's totally well done and not terrible or useless at all! Can't wait to disable the service unit every time I spin up a new Linux install! Even better: maybe I'll finally decide to put up with a different init system. This is pitifully shoddy, even acknowledging the fact that it is basically volunteer work since it's open source. (It's not like they're inexperienced devs, though, so what gives? Maybe it wasn't meant for release yet and accidentally got merged into one?)

4:00 - The code says 53 6F 6D 65 74 68 69 6E 67 20 68 61 70 70 65 64, which translates to "Something happed".

well at least they picked blue and not another color, it's still scary, but the empty void of black background also scares me, but it's still better compared to bright demonic red

6:09 Windows 1 BSODs be like

you could probably do the animation by doing many many repeated lines returning the cursor to the beginning of the line like and printing the message over and over. It'd probably flicker like hell but it'd get around the other artifacts and not be so easily dismissed.

leave a like on the video! thanks!!!

I'd like to see you make more videos about Linux, I'm working towards installing Linux on my laptop right now (I'm still looking at various distros and DE's currently, I'm about to try xfce with Mint next).

all this effort for one simple gag was amazing

Is there a way to add audio to BSOD? I really want to see the "Oopsie Whoopsie" BSOD meme recreated XD

i can imagine the QR would be useful because you could actually copy the text into your preferred search engine. at least I know I would be appreciative of it

11:26 Wow, I didn't expect it to keep the red colour during shutdown…

The video : Finally, Bluescreen in LINUX. Me : Wait, that's illegal!

Hey, it's the distro I already use as my main OS!

Fun fact: we also have the red screen of death (ie if screenlock crashes)

It is a good feature, the QR code could be improved, maybe they should make it take you to the website of the distros support page and report it

I remember taking out the USB while booted into it before this update, and it did a full screen but decorated “Uh oh!” Error

i want my pc to run into a kernel panic more than a problem

8:18 QR code jumpscare

Up next: playing bad apple on this

Imagine if the KERNEL could bluescreen on panic now?

Windows: oh you installing notepad i guess need to restart Linux: oh you reinstalling my core ha can let me on

3:42 "Something happed"

i now get the whole asmr thing ^^

I am glad they did this in Linux, its universal at this point.

"something happed" :skull:

Great Video ❤

Ok the first part of the video with the whole scenario about almost being late to submit a final hit so hard for me. I cut it really close recently and the stress was unreal 😭

newlines could be encoded as VT100 or ANSI escapes ^[E

If you can toggle the spash screen, you can toggle the BSOD. And hopefully we can customize it.

I wonder if it'd be possible to display a stack trace like in Windows NT.

Which QR code scanner app do you have? The one I always use has no option to show the raw content of the code…

My favorite feature of Windows made it into Linux...

would be helpful if you could have a url at the start of your errors that the qrcode maker could read and insert as a qr, instead of just... being text

But how much is the fly?

5:35 it’s systemd-bsod

Now, add Linux to BSOD-sim, and make a linux ver.

Installing SystemD 255

I knew it !

Blood red logging, because no Plymouth Damn

I don't know when it will show up, because i could delete the kernel mid-session and it didn't show

7:27 these are probably ANSI escape characters

Ah! A Portal Easter Egg!

I'll just make this 1. Black backgrounded 2. Progress by 1% every 0,1 to 10 seconds 3. On my computer when someone else sees

4:10 how much could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

afaik, this appears when the pc fails to boot, not randomly like windows whenever it fiils like it

Can't wait for people to rice the BSOD and crash the PC on purpose just ro show it to other people!

4:00 Something happed also whats ur linux distro?

I’m really interested in what „happed” (QR)

Apart from the obvious trollbaiting naming, my main problem with this, as with much of what makes up the collection of software under the systemd umbrella, is that this was done by rookies. I can't wait for the overflows, CVEs and other side effects of this silly thing. As you noted, the QR code could be very helpful but again, it's not implemented in a way that's very useful. I am not against replacing the old init system, I am not against replacing things like ntpd, but you gotta make something that's at least as good as the old thing. And when you notice that your time measurements are off because timesyncd relies on the kernel time slewing, or when systemd tells you that you need to run a "reload" command before it can restart a service after the files changed (Why not just reload those files when you notice that they changed??) - you notice that a lot of these programs are poor replacements written by people who have not grasped the extent of the functionality of the programs they set out to replace. A user friendly error notification is a good idea. This implementation is just not up to snuff. It will however appear in all mainline linux distros because "it's systemd". EDIT: Also, great video, as always. I very much enjoy watching you fiddle with things like that.

What Linux system do you use ? I'm using Pop_OS but it doesn't work...

Make one for mac xd-also why journal? Journal is a bit buggy on a few distros

Yeah! :D

Can't even imagine how Distros will use this...

Or if (just if) can we restart the PC after it hits 100%?

This is a weird way of generating QR codes

You should have Made it to the one in Windows 7

Good thing that, unlike in Windows, you can just remove it. Even if your distro is full systemd, it doesn't seem like other components really depend on the bsod thing.

Lennart Poettering would mad at this lol

I wish android 15 have this

lol this is cool (also what Linux Disturbiution Did You Use? The Distro Looks Nice)

add a sad pinguin and it's good to go

kde is supreme

Oh nooo I missed the challenge

There BSOD doesn't mean you lost your hard work in the end of creating. This means that your HDD finally died

$(cat $FILE) is sin in bash

YEs

But is it useful in some way? Maybe I am more interested in its implementation, but

Does Windows Insider green work

Personally I would have incremented the % by random amounts, capping it at 100%.

lmao i was on linux and this video out of nowhere crashed my pc 2 seconds in wtf how

But why did they have to call it a BSOD?

Didn't I see another video talking about this?

nice hand bro

Does Linux really have BSOD, not kernel panic?

It's defintely in a work in progress state right now. But I can only hope to get a customizable BSOD on error soon :)

I don’t rent it to be blue though. I want something more soothing.

any chance of doing some narration?

5:35 u wrote system-bsod instead of systemd-bsod😅

Yes, something happed.

idk man, am i supposed to get every code? before [38], of [2], Go [7], a [60], fifth [47], sixth [27], end. [21], move [34], is [75]

Something "happed"?