I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.
For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files… and all I saw was a distro.
It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.
So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think… It might be a tremendous fuck up.
See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.
EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though…
Never accounting for making USB flash drives to make live installs from or knowing what commands I’m going to need to enter if things hiccup. I want to get back into BunsenLabs distros but there’s a part of the install where it asks me about optical media or some formatting thing and I never know what to enter to hop over it.
I use to rock BunsenLabs. I LOVED it. I don’t know why I ever left it.
Like, with Debian, you can install anything. Sometimes it takes manual intervention like compiling a program oneself, but then you have it.
I tend to just use defaults whenever possible. I remember Bunsen having the slickest post installer to grace a welcome screen.