Linux veterans, what is your most "my system is destroyed"-type of story? And if you did, how did you eventually identify and fix it?

Posted by YeOldePoop@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 244 comments

I am always intrigued by the knowledge of veteran Linux users, especially those who have used Linux for decades. The reason behind this post is that I am new to Linux, and am looking to develop good maintenance practice. I am currently running a Fedora fork on the big one with it's NVIDIA GPU (GTX 1660 SUPER) and AMD CPU. It's super stable and has no major issues aside from the occasional Wayland KDE bug, none of which are damning.

I am currently testing out Arch on my ancient craptop which was awful even when it was released. It is a HP Notebook with an AMD CPU, an AMD GPU and is a trash nugget with a lot of good memories attached. I even replaced the dead well used battery on recently when any reasonable person would just get a new one. It's on xorg with XFCE, and it's running so well. I am very proud of it. Modern Windows barely worked on it.

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So I am a new user way over my head that want to learn from your mistakes, but it's also just fun to read about people's Linux experiences, the odder the better.

Fun stories, sad stories, whatever. If you have any, please share!