Sock Puppet Society to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 months agoA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.message-square45fedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1236arrow-down1message-squareA big part of learning Linux is screwing up computers and starting over.Sock Puppet Society to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@cmhe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•2 months agoNo no no! When you break something in Linux systems you fix it. Starting over and reinstalling everything is what you do when you mess up on Windows.
minus-squareSock Puppet SocietyOPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoFunny I did not expect so many people that resist starting over. Next time I’ll give fixing stuff a shot :)
minus-square@cmhe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•2 months agoIt is more about being lazy. In most cases, where you havn’t destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there. See the Archlinux wiki, even if you do not use Archlinux, it is great: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot
No no no! When you break something in Linux systems you fix it. Starting over and reinstalling everything is what you do when you mess up on Windows.
Funny I did not expect so many people that resist starting over. Next time I’ll give fixing stuff a shot :)
It is more about being lazy.
In most cases, where you havn’t destroyed your filesystem, you can just boot another Linux from a USB stick, mount your filesystems to /mnt, chroot into it, and then investigate and fix there.
See the Archlinux wiki, even if you do not use Archlinux, it is great: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot