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submitted 21 hours ago by stembolts@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So I was thinking of silly things I've done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :

exit

in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.

I'm curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.

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[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

I deleted my desktop environment during an apt upgrade, not once, but twice. Bad habit of not actually reading the messages that pop up properly - it did ask me if I wanted to delete it all, and I just said "yea lol lfg". There was some conflict with a third party PPA that caused this.

Didn't know that had happened to begin with. I was stuck on the session manager login screen and it just wouldn't proceed after entering password. First time I just reinstalled Linux, and the second time I found out how to reinstall it from tty. This is how I learned about tty as well.

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