this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s probably how most of us started, but then you start getting familiar with things…

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And that's when you really get good at breaking shit.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my early days I would reinstall the whole OS several times a week when I would fuck things up too much.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, the good old days of installing some obscure distro just to reinstall from scratch a week after 👌🏼

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm still curious about stuff I didn't try. Like NixOS. Even tough I have a perfectly configured and problem free arch install which could take hours to replicate, I still consider if I should try it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Virtual machines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just switched to NixOS from Endeavour maybe 1/2 days ago. It's honestly pretty cool(i might have to be extra stupid to break this distro lol), but even as a vanilla Arch user it still kind of confuses me. I'm a linux noob, though. You'll probably have an easier time with it.

Edit: i do miss pacman, specially yay.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah! I tried so many…hahaha

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

God I spent so much unnecessary time reinstalling arch, before arch-install too! Looking back almost every time I reinstalled arch I could have fixed it with an installer and chroot.

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

Professional level breaking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true. I'm no expert, I need to google everything - but after years of reading / coping/ pasting similar things, I started to understand how some things work.

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

While at the same time, others understand less and less how you work