It do be like that, at least for the first couple years, and typically with decreasing frequency.
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Both, to the point it doesn't boot, and just tweaking enough bugs that it's easier to jist start over.
Reply fail?
I would actually be amazed if I ever bricked a PC fucking around with installing software to it. At the very worst, I might have to move a jumper pin to flash the CMOS and start fresh like I never even touched the thing. If somehow even that fails, it would be a unique experience.
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Bricking hardware is a form of enrichment for me.
Ah, have you found the land of IoT? Bricks everywhere, you'd love it.
You're suggesting I should follow the yellow brick road to find the Wizard of iOT?
Why not... or try another brick in the wall
I always think of Kiwi / Ozzie slang when I type chroot.
Of course that's after consulting the ArchKiwi to remember how to mount it
Ah Chroot bro
Once you break it a few times, you start to understand the value of btrfs or ZFS snapshots.
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Nearly always it's been during the live USB install of a dual-boot that a distro messes with the grub or installed grub to the USB disk itself. The fault lies with me because I'm almost blindly trusting the distro, but also with the distro for lacking proper yet succinct documentation during the install or configuration of partitions.
Not any moreso than learning any other OS. I'd just argue that it's the case if you're averse to research, reading, listening, watching, or just generally learning from others... or if you're delving into unknown territory
Personally, i'm a learn-by-doing type of lady, so I've fucked up my share of devices (I'm allergic to reading unless it's fiction), but I have yet to mess around in the kernel (it's on my todo list, for my LFS build which is TBD)
I've never in 15 years of Linux use and tinker have ever screwed a kernel. And I compiled LFS once.