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I F*cked up and I need help.
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I will also offer some help...
Next time you're "testing things" set up a VM and test there. Don't test things on your primary OS/place you can't just wipe and start over.
That is a great advice. Thanks for the tip my man.
Also setting up a periodic snapshot with tools like timeshift can save your life
Already tried that yesterday and my last back up is three days old. But timeshift needs password and when I entered it. The Timeshoft said that I don't have permision to open it.
right it still require root privileges...
well if you boot from a usb key and you have a btrfs file system, you could manually restore the snapshot. this would bypass the password
If there is docker image for what you need, use docker image.
If not I would recommend systemd-nspawn, it's chroot but can run systemd init, with efforts you can run GUI applications from it too., wiping that is just sudo rm -rf.
any foss vms out there?
KVM/Qemu with Virt-Manager as GUI. There's also Virtualbox, but it's Oracle