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Nomecks ,

Terraform destroy

Terraform apply

SynopsisTantilize ,

My wifi card just stops working after a resume from suspend. I cannot get it to come back after resume. After some time fucking with it, I just turned off suspend. And turned on close lid = power down. EZ.

cordlord ,

I had this happen with my touchpad and started with the solution you did.

I figured out how to restart the touchpad at the kernel, which fixed it. Then, I figured out how to run those commands after it wakes from suspend.

Works like a dream now.

SynopsisTantilize ,

Lol I should probably grow up and figure out my problem instead of putting the bandaid on it.

Boxscape ,
@Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This is how Tumbleweed cured my distrohopping—out-of-the-box Snapper meant painless rollbacks.

Sneptaur ,
@Sneptaur@pawb.social avatar

Got into an argument about this once. The other person insisted that if I wipe my hard drive and reinstall, that I’m a pathetic moron who doesn’t deserve to use a computer.

In fairness, it’s usually better to fix things so you can learn, but dang they were toxic.

Pilferjinx ,

It's great when you're young and have the spare time and energy on such things.

Gestrid ,

To be fair, at least with Windows, if you do a reinstall I've always found that it never runs quite like it used to. I've sometimes had to deal with some weird quirks afterwards. A friend of mine who kept switching between Google Android and open-sourve Android on his phone said the same thing. Every time he reinstalled Google Android, it simply wouldn't run as well as it did beforehand.

It's like taking a plumbing pipe out and putting it back in. Or taking apart a car engine and putting it back together. It never quite fits together the way it used to anymore.

Sonotsugipaa ,
@Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I had the opposite experience with Windows (7 up to 10), every now and then I would have to reinstall it to get some random feature working, which made the system run smoothly for a while - which checks out, considering Windows' affinity for software rot.

Then again, I increasingly debloated it as time went on, which I'd assume contributes to its instability.

jelloeater85 ,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

People like that are why more folks don't like Linux and tech in general.

Bro, gatekeeping computers is something children do.

"You much get invited to a lot of parties?" is generally a good response. "Everyone makes mistakes, you're living proof".

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

I'm a pathetic moron

"so there would be two of us then, eh?"

blahsay ,

Press both

spikederailed ,

You learn plenty by breaking and reinstalling. I don't considering it an invalid option for a home user. I had to reinstall MacOS7/8 and Windows 95/98 so many times as a kid. Learned a lot doing it, sysadmin now 🤷‍♂️

299792458ms ,
@299792458ms@lemmy.zip avatar

Fuck around, find out and learn.

bitwaba ,

find out and learn

But you repeat yourself

299792458ms ,
@299792458ms@lemmy.zip avatar

yeah, the point I was trying to make is that some people "find out" but do not learn

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

You learn a lot more by reading and fixing. That's simply not possible with Windows.

Chee_Koala ,

Whenever we (Brother and I) broke our W95 install, it was a pretty high stakes race against the clock to get it to work as expected again, because if my dad got home from work and found out about the broken machine, there would be consequences (him being frustrated, us not allowed to play C&C red alert or Warcraft II)

spikederailed ,

Warcraft2 <3

NutWrench ,
@NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

Button #3: Restore TimeShift snapshot.

jelloeater85 ,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

1000% this. Just use BTRFS and avoid all the pain...

Gormadt ,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Honestly kicking myself for not having this setup on my last Linux install

Good news is it's setup on my current install

Sometimes I learn my lessons the hard way... Multiple times.

drathvedro ,

Re-installs are for scrubs windows users. We don't do that here. SSH from other machine, chroot from live usb, switch to TTY or even UEFI interactive shell. Fix your shit, and get to understand how it works while at it.

Tarqon ,

Yes that's the "spend hours" part.

icedterminal ,

Being able to do this is why Linux is so amazing. If Windows finds a corrupt file and can't repair itself, you gotta find the package it's part of (Windows update catalog), or create an ISO that's updated to do an offline repair. If the registry gets fucked, good luck fixing that.

drathvedro ,

Exactly! I rant about this a lot, but I know at least couple of people who run with laptops that have broken audio. As it turns out, installing sound card drivers is not really an option as the janky-ass drivers that the manufacturers put out nowadays can irreparably brick your entire system. It is beyond my understanding why recovery, restore, and even safe mode would even try to load them in the first place, but, apparently they do, and then crash before you could even do anything, leaving re-install as the only option.

Meanwhile, I rm -rf-ed my /boot directory the other day, and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda. Got it back up running in just a few hours... of kicking myself for why would I do such a stupid thing.

lightnsfw ,

and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda

do you mean dd ?

drathvedro ,

Oh yeah. Given how close the keys are together I might have tried to use dc and ss as well

Allero ,

Second approach is better as it teaches you to fix and understand the system you're working with

Of course, this is a more complicated and energy - demanding approach, though. But if you wanna stay on Linux, you better figure such stuff out, this will be invaluable in the long run.

I should also mention that Debian, despite the Bookworm introducing more user-friendly options, is not a newbie-centered distribution and fixing things in there tend to be more tedious for an inexperienced user.

The upside, however, is that once you've set it up, everything will just work. But first you might face some pain.

towerful ,

I wish there was a way to see what the default values in a config file are for a given distro.
I'm guessing there probably is, and I just don't know it.

Maybe I should just make / a git repo...

BaumGeist ,

Without knowing a better way, my go-to solution woukd just be getting an full installation image and diffing my files with the files on it

barsquid ,

You should check out the Fedora atomic distros if you haven't already. Making the system work more like a git repo is what they are doing with rpm-ostree. I am liking it a lot.

HelloHotel ,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

Usually if its a boolean or nullable, a good config file will have a # uncommemt this line to enable this feature/disable this feature/bind to this IP address/give this thing a name that is at least vaugely hints what the option does. But yes, its still fairly annoying.

thevoidzero ,

Don't modify the config in /etc/, copy them in ~/.config/ and then modify them. You'll always be able to just look at the /etc/ for defaults.

Hobbes_Dent ,

If you reinstall enough things, enough times, it becomes a kink.

nifty OP ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

OSSexual

qprimed ,

sigh. here we go again...

unzips archive

mihnt ,
@mihnt@lemmy.ca avatar

Extract here

VoteNixon2016 , 
sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable

"Copilot, show me Linux Rule 34"

FreshLight , (edited )
@FreshLight@sh.itjust.works avatar

You are edging?

Cool. I'm not into that kinda stuff, but whatever floats your boat :)

JackbyDev ,

Oh god, you're zip bomb won't fit in my drive 😩

qprimed ,

65536 levels of nested goodness, bae-bae!

JackbyDev ,

Saw this in my inbox and thought it was replying to this lol https://programming.dev/comment/10451457

Emerald ,

Open Source Sexuality

Damage ,

GNU/OSSexual

PixeIOrange ,
@PixeIOrange@lemmy.world avatar

Ventoy ftw

Evil_Shrubbery , (edited )

In the olden days, I would have spent hours to fix it, completely forget everything I've done over the course of those several hours and then having to reinstall it bcs I've broken something else in those unsuccessful attempts and now dont have the energy to figure out this clusterfuck too.

Ahh, good memories.

Cold_Brew_Enema ,

You're really selling me on Linux. Sounds like a nightmare

Evil_Shrubbery ,

That was a decade+ ago, closer to two.

I've always had far more driver issues with Windows.

I have a niche laptop that for mic & speakers doesn't really have drivers for that exact ID and a close (working) match are ancient, so can't avoid crackling sounds. No issues out of the box with Linux.

bl_r ,

on a thread about someone having a weird issue with linux

someone shares related story involving troubleshooting for hours

“You’re really selling me on Linux. Sounds like a nightmare”

silasmariner ,

Hah. I'm sure once I read the rest of the responses I'll see the observation that 1 is just a slow route to 2

JackbyDev ,

Reminds me of when I started using git lol.

SeekPie ,

Yesterday I tried to format and encrypt a usb drive, accidentally encrypted the main drive and it wouldn't boot to a snapshot before that. Decided to go for EndevourOS (Arch BTW) instead of Tumbleweed because I found Tumbleweeds installer too complicated.

shekau ,

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Holzkohlen ,

Debian is not a good distro for desktop usage. You cannot change my mind.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Can't change your mind? I'll just downvote you then :)

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