So I was copying very important files to another drive because I needed to back them up because Bazzite was acting super freaky and weird for me
turns out, bazzite has decided to copy all of the folders and none of the files
this marks the end of my journey with Linux until it's capable of doing the most basic system tasks known to man without causing me over 2 weeks worth of data loss
I know the feel, I have been screwed similarly back in the day by OS X. I was moving college project files to an external drive and apparent for just a split second the USB drive lost connection for a bit, which under normal circumstances wouldn't be that big a deal, but then there's Apple. See, when you are doing a move files option if by any chance the destination becomes unavailable it reverts the move but then also deletes the files in the source, so you're left with nothing. Almost failed my grade, luckily I could hand in the files later. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/os-x-lion-finder-bug-deletes-moved-files/
1. Files are on Drive A 2. I copy them to Drive B, now they're on Drives A and B 3. I wipe Drive A completely, it's now empty 4. I check Drive B, turns out the files didn't copy properly and essentially everything is gone aside empty folders
how did you do the copy, also did you actually check if the progress was 100% done before even ejecting drive B (so that the remaining transfered files get flushed to the drive before you remove it if they havent been moved yet) kde and gnomes file managers do not show progress in a clear way, often hiding it into a small icon either in the file manager or tray.
because linux tends to make the empty folders first, then copy files so it sounds like an incomplete transfer.
it's a quirk with most modern oses, they don't exactly tell you when the transfer is actually complete because of caching that's why you need to safe eject pen drives
It seems like my system has a pretty high chance of completely hanging when attempting to load GNOME after logging in , in the asus-nvidia image for Fedora 40