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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping? (lemmy.one)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files... and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think... It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though...

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[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, thank you for the write up. I will actually do that because KDE something I know I will like and enjoy more than GNOME once I get past some of the weirdness. Mostly, I want to customize it in certain ways, and while GNOME surely is customizable, it is not as easy as KDE.

Yeah, rebasing feels like some scifi future tech and I am ready to play. It is like resleeving ala Altered Carbon.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I am not sure. KDE is very customizable and I like the... regular way apps work, trays work, decorations work and all that. Also GNOME is like the anti-poweruser desktop. I like its style, but its like "use a terminal or nothing". Needing extra apps for every small thing and all...

The downside maybe is stability... and Gnome does some things well, like quicksettings and all.

I also like that GTK is easier to develop for probably, with Gnome Builder and similar tooling. But at the same time, the UI would be pretty much unusable for complex apps like Dolphin.

I tried Gimp 3.x prerelease and well, GTK3 is weird, its already this step away from the more similar styles.

Well rebasing is pretty nice, its swapping out the foundation while keeping the top intact. For things like Kinoite->Ublue-kinoite-main its just a reboot.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you need to pin the last working ostree before rebasing? I guess I want an easy way to switch between working environments without a lot of rebasing.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily if you dont have automatic updates or update manually. Only one backup is kept though, so yeah, sudo ostree admin pin 0

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Neato. I have a strategy now for messing around.