What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?
sudo rm -rf /boot /efi
Just my experience, I was unable to log in after trying to add samba to my installation. Had to boot into live usb and reset my password.
Maube I’m just bad and it’s not samba.
Not sure if this is what happend, but there is a sync option in samba where you can sync your samba user password with login user password.
However this needs explicitly be stated in the samba.conf and needs some further configuration. It could be possible that the installation fuckedup something with passwd.
Just guessing here, I played a bit arround with samba and password syncing.
My thought as well. Maybe sync was in default configuration or I just copy pasted it without reading.
Long story short, I have no idea if system user passwords and sama user passwords are the same thing, how to set them up (if they are not the same), or how to make samba use same user accounts and passwords (so that I don’t have to remember one more password). So I just gave up.
I was trying to do everything according to arch wiki, but either samba is overcomplicated for no reason, or the article is just not written well.
Go through all installed packages and remove “bloat”.
Add third party repositories.
Ahaha. That hurts.
Pro-Tip: Even if you don’t program in Python, it might be necessary for several of your applications.
Ah yes, I’ve made that mistake, too.
Also, going through Synaptic and deleting everything you don’t know.
New linux user goes online to find out how to list installed packages in the terminal. Starts removing the ones they don’t recognise.
Removing bloat doesn’t necessarily make things unstable. I remove all the games from my KDE Plasma installs. The primary mistake that can occur in removing non-essential programs is ignoring the list of programs that this is a dependency of or also removes.
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Mess with grub, without really understanding what you’re doing.
Also, “meep”.
