Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?
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You can indeed.
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My
pacman -Syucrashed 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 -
i for one welcome our grub bootlorders
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I overwrote my ssh private key with rsync. Fortunately I had special cron job running on my servers that updates ssh keys on a server with ssh keys from my github account, so I just had to upload a new key to the github and wait for a few hours.
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Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?
Yes, but you might have to muck around with
/etc/fstab. The reason is because when you install to your root partition, the installer will create a new /home in that root partition. (Unless you have an installer that's smart enough that you can tell it otherwise.)You should be able to mount the partition in any case, but to have the system recognize it as /home it has to be properly set up in fstab.
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If you are trying a new install go for something with timeshift or Silver Blue, OpenSUSE snapshotting. You can trash the whole setup, then reboot to the previous state. A catastrophic failure becomes a 1 minute fix.
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If you don't mess with the partitions during the install and don't format, and make the same username, you should be back to normal after a reinstall. Take a backup offline, of course.
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Nice day to move to nixos
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make sure not to reformat though. it can be a problem depending on the installer his distro uses.
i think its safer to just save the home folder, and replace it later when the system is installed.
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OP mentioned having used Linux for 4 weeks. If they are interested in learning more about Linux, I feel like even Arch would be a better next step.
I love NixOS and have been using it for over a year at this point but sometimes when things don't work I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall. I've been using Linux for ~7 years now.
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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...
