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I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install… (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Use Timeshift, use Timeshift, use Timeshift.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ok. I’ve downloaded, tar and gunzipped the files for it.

Then did a make build and then make install. Now my system won’t start. What do I do?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What
In the off chance that this isn't a joke, does your distro really not have timeshift binaries?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

It’s a joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I have saved 3 reinstall or 1 week of troubleshooting in only 3 "fuck around and find out" incidents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

saved me when I deleted the wrong partition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same, it's saved my butt so many times. Once in the middle of a tech conference, I was messing around in the terminal with my networking and borked something really bad.

I spent 5 minutes trying to get my networking back but couldn't figure out what I had screwed up and ended up breaking it more.

I just went into Timeshift and restored to the beginning of that day and in a few minutes I was back up like nothing had happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I guess I'm the only one timeshift always fails for.