What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?

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delete everything in /tmp; you’re not really using it anyways and you’ll get more disk space. lol

i literally used this same logic when i merged the contents of c:\windows & c:\win32 because there were so many duplicate files and folders and i needed to recover the free space.

sometimes i’m thankful for my cluelessness; examples like this paint me into corners and this particular corner was the impetus behind my exploration into linux; which has sustained my career for the last 25ish years through several once-in-a-lifetime economic recessions and multiple personal setbacks.

linux is the best mistake i’ve ever made.

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I’m curious what you work as? Sysadmin?

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i’ve been accused of that along with several other slurs like systems engineer and cloud operations engineer and it systems architecture analyst and software engineer. lol

i’m a software developer atm, but my current gig has a LOT of overlap with all of those other four letter word titles that i dare not repeat in decent company. lol

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Janitor.

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So SysAdmin, gotcha

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