It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program
If you reinstall enough things, enough times, it becomes a kink.
OSSexual
sigh. here we go again...
unzips archive
Extract here
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable
"Copilot, show me Linux Rule 34"
Use Timeshift, use Timeshift, use Timeshift.
Ok. I’ve downloaded, tar and gunzipped the files for it.
Then did a make build and then make install. Now my system won’t start. What do I do?
What
In the off chance that this isn't a joke, does your distro really not have timeshift binaries?
It’s a joke
In the olden days, I would have spent hours to fix it, completely forget everything I've done over the course of those several hours and then having to reinstall it bcs I've broken something else in those unsuccessful attempts and now dont have the energy to figure out this clusterfuck too.
Ahh, good memories.
Got into an argument about this once. The other person insisted that if I wipe my hard drive and reinstall, that I’m a pathetic moron who doesn’t deserve to use a computer.
In fairness, it’s usually better to fix things so you can learn, but dang they were toxic.
It's great when you're young and have the spare time and energy on such things.
To be fair, at least with Windows, if you do a reinstall I've always found that it never runs quite like it used to. I've sometimes had to deal with some weird quirks afterwards. A friend of mine who kept switching between Google Android and open-sourve Android on his phone said the same thing. Every time he reinstalled Google Android, it simply wouldn't run as well as it did beforehand.
It's like taking a plumbing pipe out and putting it back in. Or taking apart a car engine and putting it back together. It never quite fits together the way it used to anymore.
I had the opposite experience with Windows (7 up to 10), every now and then I would have to reinstall it to get some random feature working, which made the system run smoothly for a while - which checks out, considering Windows' affinity for software rot.
Then again, I increasingly debloated it as time went on, which I'd assume contributes to its instability.
You learn plenty by breaking and reinstalling. I don't considering it an invalid option for a home user. I had to reinstall MacOS7/8 and Windows 95/98 so many times as a kid. Learned a lot doing it, sysadmin now 🤷♂️
Pffft. I just boot from a live cd so changes are gone at reboot. Why install if you're just going to break something?
i, too, nuked my bookworm install today after fiddling with Nvidia drivers. keeping /home on its own part is such a lifehack
Second approach is better as it teaches you to fix and understand the system you're working with
Of course, this is a more complicated and energy - demanding approach, though. But if you wanna stay on Linux, you better figure such stuff out, this will be invaluable in the long run.
I should also mention that Debian, despite the Bookworm introducing more user-friendly options, is not a newbie-centered distribution and fixing things in there tend to be more tedious for an inexperienced user.
The upside, however, is that once you've set it up, everything will just work. But first you might face some pain.
I wish there was a way to see what the default values in a config file are for a given distro.
I'm guessing there probably is, and I just don't know it.
Maybe I should just make / a git repo...
Button #3: Restore TimeShift snapshot.
1000% this. Just use BTRFS and avoid all the pain...
with great power comes great resposibility.
use sudo wisely, or not at all.
use sudo wisely, or not at all.
You also just work as root all the time, right?
My laptop's mic seems to have some contact issues. It never worked for a second on windows. I put Linux on it, and it usually just works. When it doesn't, some percussive maintenance does a quick job of fixing it. I guess I was dealt the opposite hand than usual.
No, that's how it usually goes these days.
Refresh OS feature in popos has been a game changer for me
There's a cheat button called sudo snapper rollback in OpenSUSE, it can be had in other distros as well.
AKA the "I cooked my install" button.
Laughs in Fedora Atomic
As a gentoo user, spending hours trying to fix it is usually the better option.
This is why I’ve yet to make the leap from windows. I just don’t have the technical chops nor spare time to make my OS a hobby.
Not really the case with user-focused distros these days. I have far more driver woes when I have to deal with Windows.
In fairness, I suck at Linux. Ubuntu and Linux Mint are relatively easier systems. No one I know has issues with Ubuntu fwiw
newer hardware still will have issues…
Yesterday I tried to format and encrypt a usb drive, accidentally encrypted the main drive and it wouldn't boot to a snapshot before that. Decided to go for EndevourOS (Arch BTW) instead of Tumbleweed because I found Tumbleweeds installer too complicated.
Once you learn about BRTFS snapshots you'll never have this issue again
It's funny seeing this like literally a couple days after I decided it would be easier to reinstall my Mint sysyem than to fix the audio issues Pipewire was causing. I'm back on PulseAudio and haven't had issues since.
I've been on Linux for about 15 years now ... I'm no pro and I've never really advanced in anything with the terminal
I tried doing stuff years ago but then I came at a crossroad ... either spend my life learning the dark arts of the terminal and all the details of how every major system works ... reinstall every time I have a new problem that I caused ... or just leave everything alone and never tweak or adjust anything.
For the past few years, I just install the latest stable version of anything I use and never bother touching or tweaking anything ... never had a problem since.
My wifi card just stops working after a resume from suspend. I cannot get it to come back after resume. After some time fucking with it, I just turned off suspend. And turned on close lid = power down. EZ.
Why doesnt the mass public liek Linux!?
in my first couple years I basically kept spamming left "oops I bricked the dependencies again, welp time to get the usb out"
Sounds familiar
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