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[-] Hatchet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Let's be honest. If you haven't broken your bootloader at some point in time, you haven't experienced Linux.

[-] darthpenis69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've broken my bootloader many times. I remember frantically looking up how to fix that online for the first time. Now I know not to do stupid things that could bork my bootloader.

[-] dbx12@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing I fucked up was /etc/sudoers. Once it refused sudo to me, my colleague told me about visudo and having another terminal with root already open as backup. And handed me a bootable USB stick to fix my fuckup. Good times, lessons were learned.

[-] Matriks404@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Windows probably broke my bootloader (GRUB) more times than I did though.

[-] detwaft@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I feel like it’s harder to break the bootloader these days. All my dual-booting escapades worked fine, I still have most of my hair, and there’s no way my Linux skills have improved that much.

[-] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think that the major issue with the bootloader is when a user confuses the device file for the entire drive (/dev/sda) with the device file for the partition (/dev/sda1), whch is not entirely unreasonable for a new user who doesn't understand the naming system to do. Like, mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda rather than mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1. Then you overwrite the entire drive, starting with the MBR, rather than the contents of a partition with your new filesystem.

[-] PennyJim@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

As a Linux noob, the only time I've broken my bootloader was updating my distro after ignoring it for a year. I ignored the update because it broke a badly made script badly solving the complex problem caused by a simple problem that I ignored the solution to.

I finally fixed the simple problem because I needed to upgrade a library to get a modded launcher working so I could play with my friends. And I was thinking of rewriting the firmware for my macro keyboard to be better structured anyways.

I went back to the old firmware with a simple fix as the new one has a weird bug that if I hold two "even" keys at once, I get spammed down signals for the higher order one.

Linux has been fun!

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I mean if you know how to write firmware you don't really count as a Linux noob, regardless of your lack of experience with linux

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