Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 days agoTinkering and Stabilitylemm.eeimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up146arrow-down1imageTinkering and Stabilitylemm.eeChurbleyimyam@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-27 days agoonce you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues: deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine) switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind” playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch) bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh) changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”
once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:
curl | sudo sh
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