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Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?

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  • T [email protected]

    I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

    In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

    buwho@lemmy.mlB This user is from outside of this forum
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    ctrl + z

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    • T [email protected]

      I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

      In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

      A This user is from outside of this forum
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      I've done the same thing (Nvidia related) on a machine hooked up to an expensive scientific instrument. Didn't get any other work done that day... Ugh.

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      • T [email protected]

        I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

        In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

        M This user is from outside of this forum
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        #24

        On the bright side, it's never been a better time to switch to an immutable distro...

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        • P [email protected]

          TimeShift. Life saver, and great tool for learning without having to worry about breaking shit permanently.

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          Yup, its super easy

          https://itsfoss.com/backup-restore-linux-timeshift/

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          • T [email protected]

            I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

            In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

            gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zoneG This user is from outside of this forum
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            I accidentally interrupted a system upgrade, breaking networking and package manager, among other important bits

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            • T [email protected]

              I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

              In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

              isokiero@sopuli.xyzI This user is from outside of this forum
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              Does anyone sell 'Yes, Do As I Say!' stickers?

              You could possibly recover from that on console, just install few metapackages. And have backups.

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              • isokiero@sopuli.xyzI [email protected]

                Does anyone sell 'Yes, Do As I Say!' stickers?

                You could possibly recover from that on console, just install few metapackages. And have backups.

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                it's "Yes, do as I say!"

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                • T [email protected]

                  I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

                  In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

                  U This user is from outside of this forum
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                  FWIW each new install is faster, especially if you write down the "weird" steps.

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                  • C [email protected]

                    Reinstall using btrfs as the root files system and enable automatic snapshots. The data on your home partition will be fine, just make sure the installer doesn't format it.

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                    I really need to learn how to do that. I installed SuSE something on my laptop and selected that file system but couldn't find how to do the snapshot stuff. I'm sure I'm just dumb, but also exhausted, and mentally drained.

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                    • popekingjoe@lemmy.worldP [email protected]

                      Congratulations OP!

                      About a year and a half ago I nuked my root partition with sudo rm -rf /*. Fun times.

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                      That’s just how you unlock the hidden boss fight.

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                      • T [email protected]

                        I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

                        In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

                        M This user is from outside of this forum
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                        congrats you're ready for the next step: a declarative package configuration like (non-)guix or nixos

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                        • T [email protected]

                          I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

                          In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

                          mrsdoyle@sh.itjust.worksM This user is from outside of this forum
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                          My first adventure in Linux back in 2003. No idea how I achieved this, but from memory I just reinstalled and all was well.

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                            I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

                            In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

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                            Ahh, baby steps.

                            Around fours years ago I was still using Arch and I somehow decided to try LFS on my main machine (bare metal unfortunately). Started compiling coreutils but as I forgot to specify the build directory to gmake, my /usr/bin directory was being emptied to make space for the coreutils compilation process. Bricked my whole installation.

                            Now I'm smarter than four years ago as I mainly use NixOS.

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                            • mrsdoyle@sh.itjust.worksM [email protected]

                              My first adventure in Linux back in 2003. No idea how I achieved this, but from memory I just reinstalled and all was well.

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                              "AI is gonna take over the world"

                              Grub: "Hold ma beer"

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                              • A [email protected]

                                it's "Yes, do as I say!"

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                                Yeah OP is not gonna die on that

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                                • A [email protected]

                                  it's "Yes, do as I say!"

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                                  Dammit, my organic memory failed yet again. It's been a while since I've seen that prompt (and I have agreed to that as well at least few times).

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                                  • T [email protected]

                                    I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

                                    In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

                                    uis@lemm.eeU This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    Average .ml purges

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                                    • C [email protected]

                                      Migrating a 8 year old server to fresh new hardware. Can't believe you can basically just rsync one computer to another

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                                      You can indeed.

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                                      • T [email protected]

                                        I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

                                        In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

                                        cysioland@lemmygrad.mlC This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        My pacman -Syu crashed on my old laptop and at this point I might just reinstall it, this time putting on some sort of a snapshot solution on it like on my main laptop

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                                        • mrsdoyle@sh.itjust.worksM [email protected]

                                          My first adventure in Linux back in 2003. No idea how I achieved this, but from memory I just reinstalled and all was well.

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                                          i for one welcome our grub bootlorders

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