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.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    I was having a problem, can’t even remember what or why I thought running rm -rf /dev/* was a good idea, I was sure worst case scenario the system would just repopulate it on the next boot. It might have, but the problem was that I ran rm -rf /etc/* instead, which the system obviously didn’t repopulated.