Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
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Btrfs with pre and post pacman-triggered snapshots. Only had to use it once, but it was very smooth.
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yeah, that's how I roll there
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Lol Nvidia has quiet the reputation in the Linux world. Keep at it though. We all make mistakes.
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Last week I accidentally overwrite my configuration.nix file. If you use NixOS this should fill you with horror. If you don't, that file contains a description of your entire system -- all the packages as well as many settings tweaks to anything from GUI apps to core kernel & systemd options.
I have now learned my lesson and started using git to track my changes. Happily I had already split out the most difficult to reproduce sections into their own files (mostly networking stuff), so it wasn't that catastrophic, but it still turned a few minutes of tinkering into a couple hours of forehead-smacking.
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See my top-level comment; even if they're ready for the complexity, it doesn't protect you from a similar mistake!
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the truest form of Linux, without all the GNU bloat, well done!
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Couple days ago I accidentally removed a package, not fully understanding what would happen. Ended up logging out thinking nothing of it. Couldn't log back in as there were zero sessions available. Also, for some reason a huge on-screen keyboard kept popping up a lot when I'd click on the login panels things.
I am very grateful my distro came with Timeshift by default and that I had a backup from the day before to fix everything. Also glad Rescuezilla allowed me to install Timeshift and restore.
Doesn't matter who you are or what you believe, it's definitely a rite of passage to break your system once. That is something I'll always agree with.
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D'hoe...
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I'm not clear what you've done here, but I've never played with the purge command. I take it you removed a lot of basic packages. How did it happen? Wildcards?
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I'd like to interject here...
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You might want to look into Snapper: https://documentation.suse.com/smart/systems-management/html/snapper-basic-concepts/index.html
Booting from snapshots has pulled my chestnuts out of the fire a few times--between using a rolling release distro as my daily driver, and NVIDIA graphics not always behaving well in conjunction with that.
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I did that. Since I had everything backed up to my nextcloud, I just pulled the Debian USB out of my backpack and razed what was left. Rebuilt on the rubble.
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Yeah but, you're a towel.
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I can't entirely recall the precise details now, but I was trying to uninstall Nvidia and Mesa packages to fix some driver issues. Some mesa-related packages were remaining, and I couldn't figure out why, so I manually typed their names in and purged them, then proceeded to watch python, the desktop environment — everything — all uninstall haha.
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It was all just bloat anyways, who needs anything besides a kernel?
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It's a pure Linux system now! No GNU!
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Mr Torvald, I don’t feel so well.
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Ubuntu Additional Drivers offered me a choice between 11 different nvidia drivers.
nouveau,and then a mishmash of versions, open, proprietary and server.
Like OP was probably trying to do, had to manually remove the existing driver before you could select anything because all those options were greyed out because of a 'manual installed driver
And guess what did this 'manual installed driver'? Me? No. Ubuntu's own uograde or running the command for ubuntu to select the 'besr driver'.
