What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?
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Go through all installed packages and remove "bloat".
Add third party repositories.
Ahaha. That hurts.
Pro-Tip: Even if you don't program in Python, it might be necessary for several of your applications.
New linux user goes online to find out how to list installed packages in the terminal. Starts removing the ones they don't recognise.
Yeah that was me a bunch of years ago, thinking I'd cut the unnecessary dependencies from my system.
I learned they were not so unnecessary.
Ah yes, I've made that mistake, too.
Also, going through Synaptic and deleting everything you don't know.
Synaptic is a new Linux user's worst enemy. Makes it too easy to just break stuff.
Removing bloat doesn’t necessarily make things unstable. I remove all the games from my KDE Plasma installs. The primary mistake that can occur in removing non-essential programs is ignoring the list of programs that this is a dependency of or also removes.
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