Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
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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.
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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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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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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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"AI is gonna take over the world"
Grub: "Hold ma beer"
