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[–] 17 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Yeah every issue is basically a mystery that will lead you down a rabbit hole, be prepared to learn a lot of things and copy and paste code you do not fully understand, well if you are a layman like me

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Or just keep back ups and reinstall the OS.

    Honestly I've been using Linux for like 15 years and there have been times that just reinstalling which takes 45 minutes would have been the fastest and easiest solution to a problem I will likely never encounter again.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I recently switched to CachyOS. While I don't have the same hard-on for it that most users seem to have, I like how it's set up by default to create a btrfs snapshot of the root filesystem before and after each update. Grub can even boot into individual snapshots directly. I'm almost looking forward to the day it saves my ass after an update breaks my system.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    When you go down the rabbit hole a debate starting from scratch again:

    45 minutes to re-install the OS.

    Another couple of hours to get all of the common programs you use downloaded and installed.

    A full month or more of customizing everything to your preferences and downloading the programs you rarely use.

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