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Just moved to Linux: a follow up (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it's been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol.
Fortunately I kept my /home on its own partition, so this shouldn't be too bad to get back up and running as desired.

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[–] agent_flounder 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweet, welcome! :) I know the feeling. I just finished reinstalling Nobara after being dumb and goofing up patching. Then I tried to fix it and made the system totally unusable and I gave up.

A while ago I jacked my grub config and decided to try to fix it manually. I managed to stumble through it and learned some stuff, though I am still fuzzy on some details.

I mostly want to just use the computer without a lot of headache and both Mint and Nobara have been great for coding (various), electronics design, 3d modeling and printing, graphics, photo editing, and such.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I gave up on fixing it yesterday lol. I spent a few days setting it up, I didn't wanna spend a few more days to try to figure out exactly what the issue was when I could just give in and then actually use it

[–] agent_flounder 1 points 1 year ago

Totally valid! Theoretically with more experience it may be easier / faster to fix but...idk

See this is why I keep /home on a separate partition (or drive in some cases). I can reinstall or switch distros anytime without worrying about all my files (they're backed up, anyway but doing a restore is a pita).