Stark<p>People always say that <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> doesn't play nicely with hardware or software.</p><p>My friend has a hardrive that stopped working. I really thought the thing was dead. It was making that jank ticking sound of a dying hard drive. You know what I am talking about.</p><p>So I took it out of their PC, placed it in a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SATA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SATA</span></a> HDD dock, and plugged it into my Linux laptop.</p><p>You'll never guess. <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PopOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopOS</span></a> detected a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> hardrive people who were ready to throw away and lose all their data.</p><p>Nothing was corrupted. The hardrive was just very close to its end.</p><p>Do you want to tell me <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LinusTorvald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinusTorvald</span></a> added patience to an operating system</p>