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    [–] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

    [–] meteotsunami@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

    [–] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years 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.

    [–] RealBlstr@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

    [–] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

    Oh yeah! I tried so many…hahaha

    [–] mfn77@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

    [–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

    Virtual machines

    [–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

    [–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 2 points 2 years 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.

    [–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    Professional level breaking.

    [–] RealBlstr@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years 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.

    [–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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