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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

congrats you're ready for the next step: a declarative package configuration like (non-)guix or nixos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I overwrote my ssh private key with rsync. Fortunately I had special cron job running on my servers that updates ssh public keys on a server with ssh public keys from my github account, so I just had to upload a new key to the github and wait for a few hours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Average .ml purges

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The best way to learn something is by hurting you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

D'hoe...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nice day to move to nixos ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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