Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?

MXX53@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Back in the day, that’s what I did ALOT on Windows. Specially because of piracy and my younger me having no idea what he was doing XD !

  Still happend on Linux with EndeavourOS but not for the same reasons ! There are millions times more ways to break stuff on Linux but I always learn Something new during the process.

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  Learned the other day that some config files are loaded in a specific order and depending what display manager is installed. That was kinda eye opening to understand cause my systems didn’t load .profile when .bash_profile was present and I didn’t understood why ! Thanks Archwiki !

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • whysofurious@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Archwiki is really an invaluable source of information, I use it regularly even if I never touched Arch.

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• whysofurious@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is exactly how I feel! Everything works but I feel there is a lot that was "“forced’” on me that I don’t use, and conversely a lot that is going on 24/7 and I don’t really know how it works.

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  • MXX53@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I did the same thing when I started self hosting. I followed some guides that recommended all these tools. The more I learned, the more I realized I hardly used some of the stuff but when I disabled them it broke the stuff I did use. That’s when I took the time to wipe my system and build from the ground up, but this time actually understand what I was doing and not just blindly following guides.

    Good luck!

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    • whysofurious@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you! And thanks for sharing your experience :)

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Back in the old days, a lot of people went through the “Linux From Scratch” process to literally build up the OS from absolute scratch. No distro, no packages, no precompiled kernel, nothing but the raw ingredients. It is a good way to really understand the fundamentals not just of Linux but of the whole computing paradigm our systems are built on. It is not as hard as it probably sounds, but it’s an investment. It takes some time and you need to put your brain in gear to actually learn.

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