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ethanolparty, to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

A few years ago I was having obscure audio problems on Ubuntu so I tried replacing pulseaudio with pipewire. I was feeling pretty cocky with using the package manager so I tried

sudo apt install pipewire

Installed successfully, realized nothing changed, figured maybe I had to get rid of pulseaudio to make it stick.

sudo apt remove pulseaudio

Just two commands. Instant black screen, PC reboots into the terminal interface. No GUI. Rebooting again just brings me back to the terminal.

I fixed it eventually, but I’m really not very computer literate despite using Linux, so I was sweating bullets for a minute that I might have bricked it irreversibly or something.

ethanolparty, to lemmyshitpost in oh snap.

Yeah but you know they’d use that as an excuse to jack up the prices anyway

ethanolparty, to memes in Presidential fitness test

I had horrible eyesight and was shockingly inept at all sportball games, even compared to other hopeless nerds, so I found it slightly less awful than the stuff we usually did.

ethanolparty, to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Same thing happened to me! I was on Ubuntu, trying to replace pulse and when it got removed instantly kicked me to the terminal. Eventually I fixed it but now I also just Mint, lol

ethanolparty, to linux in Which terminal emulator do you use?

whatever comes with the distro I’m using this month

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