Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
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Back the hell up. Seriously. I cannot overstate how peaceful life is when your ass is properly covered.
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I feel your pain
🫠Yeah, just to add another confirmation to the other comments, if you have a separate home partition you can reuse it with a new / partition and expect it to work fine. The only stuff that gets saved in your home folder is comfiguration files for your apps, along with whatever actual files you have stored. You can even swap distros (Ubuntu/Arch) and keep your home folder, though sometimes the config files and settings don't translate perfectly.
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One of us. One of us
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Spent half the day debugging wifi and kernel panic issues during boot. What finally fixed it was adding 5 sec delay to iwd service so wifi card firmware can do it's thing (or at least I think thats why it helped).
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This is my favorite song about proper Linux practices: https://youtu.be/WpQrAbkM3dI
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I try to keep everything I care about in one folder that is backed up regularly, so it’s not such a big deal to reinstall the OS.
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Welcome to the club, here's your penguin
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Congratulations OP!
About a year and a half ago I nuked my root partition with
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TimeShift. Life saver, and great tool for learning without having to worry about breaking shit permanently.
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What where some of the commands you where unsure of? Might be able to help if it's a common problem like smb sharing.
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ctrl + z
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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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On the bright side, it's never been a better time to switch to an immutable distro...
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Yup, its super easy
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I accidentally interrupted a system upgrade, breaking networking and package manager, among other important bits
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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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it's "Yes, do as I say!"
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FWIW each new install is faster, especially if you write down the "weird" steps.
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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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That’s just how you unlock the hidden boss fight.
