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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once 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”
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- changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”
That’s the only part I disagree with. Software not updated in a long time can easily become a risk.
Everything else though, spot in.
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aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”
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