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.

  • Eevoltic [she/her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I had chmod /* instead of ./* using the root user, because I had some file permissions that needed fixing. I quickly realised that I had made the entire filesystem have file permission issues when half my desktop crashed. Couldn’t boot the system anymore so I started a distro-hoping journey which was really fun and taught me a lot about Linux.

    I still get a rush of anxiety whenever I need to change file permissions recursively.

    • tmjaea@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      Did the same as a student. Obviously Linux does not like when /* is chowned to www-data:www-data. Luckily it was only a VM.