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…

  • erwan@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    The first dumb thing is distro hopping to start with.

    Distro are not that different in practice, just pick one and go on with your life.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      Debian based, arch based, rhel based are all somewhat different and have different package managers (with flatpak, appimage and snap that might be less important nowadays though)

      Nobara comes with all the stuff for gaming, not everyone who uses Linux knows exactly what they need to install themselves

      NixOS is fantastic and drastically different from all the others

      NixOS, silverblue, vanilla are all immutable which makes a massive difference

      Also not everyone wants to install their own DE, so if they want something like cinnamon, pantheon, KDE they need a distro that comes with it preinstalled

    • DidacticDumbassOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You are right. I was happy with linux mint, and before that MX Linux. This is all just bike shedding. I spend a lot of time setting things up Hell, I spend too much time just downloading crap because I have not bothered to make a script that would automate installation of the apps I use.

      Yeah, I think I will.