Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.

Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.

    • wulf@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      Ha, I did the same thing. Was getting really tired of pip issues and attempting to use pyenv and messing up a lot. Figured I’d start clean.

      Didn’t realize so much depended on python and ended up needing to rebuild the whole thing.

      Now I don’t mess with python on my host and only use VMs for Dev or messing around.

    • not_amm@beehaw.org
      3·
      8 months ago

      I almost did that with python2. Also, some programs just have weird libraries that I’ve been close to uninstall, then see 4705894095 programs that would be uninstalled along with it.

    • elfpie@beehaw.org
      2·
      8 months ago

      After ruining some installations and learning some more, I started questioning the fact that pyenv and some venv management are not taught at the beggining.