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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files... and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think... It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though...

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[–] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those aren't fuckups they are learning experiences. Now you know what that does in that situation.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Yes! I am becoming more careful. I am definitely getting deeper in my knowledge of programs and linux. The stuff to learn is immense. But, it makes my life so much better.

[–] Deregon@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I tried dual-booting Manjaro from my Ubuntu install, since VMs were slow on my machine at the time and I wanted to give Manjaro a try.

Manjaro wouldn't boot (X11 sessions crashes on boot), and then when I returned to Ubuntu, I got dropped straight to the GRUB rescue shell because I had shrunk the partition from the Manjaro installer, and it had fucked up the Ubuntu install :/ so instead of two OSes I had none

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like I have done that too, but long time ago. I always got confused with dual booting. I get weird trying to calculate how much to space to give each partition.

Making partitions by hand is a pain though.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The first dumb thing is distro hopping to start with.

Distro are not that different in practice, just pick one and go on with your life.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Debian based, arch based, rhel based are all somewhat different and have different package managers (with flatpak, appimage and snap that might be less important nowadays though)

Nobara comes with all the stuff for gaming, not everyone who uses Linux knows exactly what they need to install themselves

NixOS is fantastic and drastically different from all the others

NixOS, silverblue, vanilla are all immutable which makes a massive difference

Also not everyone wants to install their own DE, so if they want something like cinnamon, pantheon, KDE they need a distro that comes with it preinstalled

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