• bazzett@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process 😅🤣. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you’re not careful enough. Fun times.

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      1 year ago

      It’s things like this that prevent me from using Linux more.

      I force myself to use it for projects where it’s an option because I feel I need to learn it better but I kind of dread it every time.

      Inevitably I’m stuck frustrated reading conflicting guides from years ago and wondering just how badly I’m going to fuck things up this time.

      Sometimes it all feels so esoteric.

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        I’ve always loved Linux, even when it was kicking my ass. I can’t imagine approaching it with the attitude “Ugh, I have to force myself to use this thing, and I know that it’s going to frustrate me”.

        That sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because everybody has cognitive biases. Since you expect it to be frustrating, you’re going to remember all the times that it is and forget the times when it isn’t.

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        1 year ago

        Get on it. If you can manage to daily drive it for a few months I think you’ll learn a lot. When I jumped ship I only knew basic commands like cd and ls.

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        1 year ago

        What kind of things do you need to do? For software development my experience is that it’s just install and you can start working. Maybe one tutorial to get kubernetes running locally.