Linux is broken from this point of view. Inserting an USB drive before boot breaks booting .

Certainly doesn't for me. Skill issue.

	▲	dpark 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Works on my machine” is rarely a helpful response. Doubling down with the “skill issue” insult makes it rude in addition to being unhelpful. Two other people were able to concisely explain the problem instead of being rude and condescending.

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oasisaimlessly 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Only if you have a broken kernel cmdline or fstab that references /dev/sd* instead of using the UUID=xyz or /dev/disk/by-id/xyz syntax.

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lutusp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> [ .. ] Inserting an USB drive before boot breaks booting.

Only if the machine's BIOS is configured to give bootable USB devices boot-order priority. So it's not about Linux -- in fact, the same thing would happen on a Windows machine.

Remember that in a properly configured Linux install, the boot partition is identified by UUID, not hardware identifier (in /etc/fstab). Consequently if you change a drive's hardware connection point, the system still boots.