Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.
Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.
Uninstallled python to upgrade it. Pretty much the entire os depends on python and was also uninstalled.
“I’m not programming in python so why would I need all this?” is a thought I had in the past while browsing
synaptic.sudo pip --upgradecan also lead your way to the sudden demise of your system.Been there!
I want to do this now just to see what happens.
Well, score one in the user-friendly column for Linux Mint.
I uninstalled python3 in Debian 12, it said “sure, no problem”, and instantly broke the desktop and on reboot could not log in.
Tried the same thing on Linux Mint Debian Edition, and first it refused because one of Cinnamon’s libraries depended on it, but when I included that library in the remove and added purge, it said:
“E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.”
Thank you, LMDE.
This was my first big bork!
Haha I came to post this after doing this at work on a VM.
Exactly what I came here to say!