I’m pretty comfortable on the command line, but I also won’t hesitate to boot a live disk and # ddif=/dev/zero the main hard drive the moment my gui refuses to load.
Yep, same. The main thing Linux has taught me over the years is to keep good, regular backups of everything important.
I’ve lost way too much data already by fucking up grub somehow, or by accidentally letting windows overwrite the efi partition or some bullshit. I know how to recover from that now, but back in the day when I was doing dumb shit to my os pretty much every day, I didn’t.
I’m pretty comfortable on the command line, but I also won’t hesitate to boot a live disk and
# dd if=/dev/zerothe main hard drive the moment my gui refuses to load.Yep, same. The main thing Linux has taught me over the years is to keep good, regular backups of everything important.
I’ve lost way too much data already by fucking up grub somehow, or by accidentally letting windows overwrite the efi partition or some bullshit. I know how to recover from that now, but back in the day when I was doing dumb shit to my os pretty much every day, I didn’t.
That was all 100% my own fault btw
The simple mans solution.