Deleting the entire DE while uninstalling gimp.
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Lol howâd you manage that?
Iâve deleted the DE as well when removing some gnome system stuff, but no biggie - just reinstalled gnome.
Once while drunk I accidentaly added ârebootâ to bashrc, instead of typing it in another terminal I thought was active. Thank god linux aint a single-user system.
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Not directly on Linux, but on installing Win 10 besides Linux. The WIndows Drive selection on Installation is the worst thing ever.
I have 4 Drives (3 SSD, 1 4TB HDD). I was trying to clean one of the SSD of all of itâs 4 Partitions. Any time you delete a partition the whole list reloads and puts a âUnused Space on âŚ:â somewhere.
Well, i got 3 out of 4 correct. The fourth one was the Data partition on my 4TB HDD instead of my EFI Partition on the SSD. I noticed it .5 Seconds after clicking the âdeleteâ button. Lost 3.4TB of Data and have never used the Windows Installer for Partitioning again. I always prepare the drive from Linux now.
Oh, and i deleted the Bootrecord, EFI Partition or Grub on Drives more often than i care to countâŚ
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Got the popup window saying âthese packages will also be removedâ
As I pressed accept I glanced at saw that it said âcinnamonâ but it was too late
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I rendered my $600 dollar 3D monitor completely useless when I tried upgrading Ubuntu 16.4 to 17.4, while the monitor connected to my laptop. Now the monitor only displays the left side while the right is completely black. The lesson I learned that day always disconnected any equipment you donât need when upgrading.
I thought a NVIDIA driver was bypassing Error code 43 on a Linux VM, but the actual cause was a version mismatch because of failed initramfs updates.
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I have a file on a network share where I append (usually) bash commands that are useful enough I might want to use them again, but both complicated enough that I would probably forget the details and infrequent enough that they probably wouldnât be in the default history the next time I go to look for them.
This morning I grepâd through my file and found it mostly empty. Turns out a couple months ago I fumble fingered an âappendâ when I, hit up, surrounded the previous command in echo " ⌠" but then used â> bash_fuâ instead of â>> bash_fuâ. Fortunately my rsync backup strategy for that file takes snapshots for me. Considering how error prone my typing is, itâs a miracle this is the first time this has happened.
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Used it.
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âDesignâ might be a bit generous. ls and rm and cp and such were just meant to be test programs for the filesystem. The shell was supposed to be a debugging interface for development. These things are legacy cruft that wasnât really designed to be used at all.
Deleted user root.
Just pressed ctrl-alt-delete with the keyboard plugged into the wrong machine
sudo rm -rf'd a chroot with /dev, /sys and /proc bind mounted. Couldnât even shut down, had to pull the plug.
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Trying to prepare my new 3TB drive from Amazon. Donât know what I did, but apparently I ended up resurrecting the old partition of my windows drive that is now my gaming drive. Lost every game, and now no matter what I do, Grub thinks old drive is a windows 10 os.
installing literally anything other than the one true GAHNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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I once copied a bunch of files from a usb backup
sudo cp -R /media/ME/usbback/* /home/ME/
noticed in the file browser the new files where owned by old user/root so i typed
sudo chown -R ME:ME ./*
but the console was in / at the timeâŚFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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I wanted to delete a file that I made in /usr/bin and without thinking removed both the file and the entire usr directory⌠I have since learned to take snapshots lol.
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Installing i3
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Spending about 30+ minutes the other day screwing with SSH config, static IP settings, and dynamic DNS, to realize I had not restarted networking so I had no IP on my server.
Thinking /dev/random was truly random.