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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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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Apparently running an update on Fedora. My flatpaks were broken on Fedora 40, so I thought it's a configuration issue on my part and did a clean reinstall when Fedora 41 came out. Issues were not present... until I ran an update.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I actually don't know. I tried investigating the issue, using different users, or trying from a clean install, or without my configs. I'm not sure about the sources of my issues. I know that one of the issues I had was unrelated (Tabliss in Vivaldi), but I'm not sure if the Flatpak issues and the Steam & Lutris Gaming issues were related, but I don't seem to have those issues on PopOS. For now at least. I haven't done any gaming yet but the flatpaks seem to be okay.