I’ll give the whole story if anyone wants it

  • Kaity@leminal.space
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    4 months ago

    My moment was using the experimental repos to get an early view into wayland, after seeing it wasn’t quite ready for my system I just switched back. Mistakes made, and slowly over the next few weeks as I updated, the experimental packages never got superseded and updated, until my system crashed and would not pass boot.

    Luckily since it is not windows I just used a live usb stick to mount the disk and manually reinstall all the broken system packages. Scary but made me feel pretty confident I could recover the system myself in the future. Also learned a pretty important lesson. Don’t do that, and look at the upgrade log if you do lol, cause the whole time, as I upgraded there was red text showing me all the system packages that were not getting updated.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      After fixing some Windows problems with their version of a live USB (the recovery USB) I really don’t want to do it ever again. It’s harrowing.