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Meanwhile yesterday I fucked up my linux installation trying to find alternatives on how to be use the wheel click without having things pasted with it :/
I'll be trying again when I am not lazy to reinstall it again.
For Gnome ^ but I'm at work and can't confirm.
Damn, someone who actually gives GUI instructions and doesn't yell at the person? Keep it up. The Linux community needs people like you.
As far as I remember I tried that but it didn't seem to work and some xdotool script that disabled the wheel click entirely. Then I installed kde, tried a few more things there, and then I tried to go back to gnome but... ...
I recently tried out Fedora and it deleted my Windows boot files so I had to fuck with the computer for hours trying to troubleshoot... not to mention that almost all Linux tools can't create a proper bootable USB Windows recovery drive :/ Never had this problem with OpenSUSE (I had the best Linux experience with that one for sure) or Ubuntu, they behaved properly with dual-boot install. I guess Fedora never again. And what's with that name anyway? It's dumb. Fedoras are a meme for a reason.
Just make a Ventoy USB. Why people still bother flashing disk images to thumb drives is beyond me.
It's still needed for some things. I tried to install a Universal Blue based distro with Ventoy and kept getting errors, once I flashed a drive it installed perfectly normally. It's definitely an edge case though.
Ventoy is awesome, +1
I guess that’s because it was a community continuation of red hat linux (not the enterprise one)
Fedora Linux was thing before fedoras became the meme we know. Also, I would imagine some of the original Fedora Linux guys really did wear fedoras.
It is made by Red Hat, and they went with the hat theme. I used a few distributions, and RedHat was one of the worst. I don't know why it's popular.
This is the #1 feature I miss wherever I'm forced to use a non-Linux system.
I know about autohotkey. I used it back when it was new. I don't use Windows at all, aside from my Blue Iris VM.
My desktop, my laptop, my work laptop, my TV gaming system, all my hypervisors, all my Nvidia Jetson systems, 3D printer controller (OctoPi), and (aside from my Blue Iris VM) every single one of my dozens of servers run some kind of Linux.
Except for my firewall, which is OPNsense.
I fucked up my Linux installation yesterday by doing apt upgrade.
Same! dnf upgrade tho for me.
Really? What happened exactly? Hang on. Are you using an Nvidia card? The Nvidia drivers can be finicky sometimes, especially if you have CUDA installed.
I’m pretty sure it was caused by some nvidia driver. It just cut the upgrade process halfway through and in turn damaged nearly everything. Not exactly sure what happened. Either way, my system got so broken I figured it’s easiest to just wipe everything and start from scratch.
I bet there was a relatively quick way to recover it. One thing that's amazing about Linux is that it's not locked up like Windows or a Mac.
I've practically destroyed systems (entirely my fault) but was still able to fix it.
I even mucked around on a laptop with a LUKS encrypted drive to add a dual boot with another Linux distro. I ended up destroying grub completely. I was back up with both distros working and without a single file lost in 30 minutes.
Maybe. I did some attempts to recover it, like reinstalling all broken packages. But everything I did seemed to break it even more. Any “simple” fix at my skill level would probably take weeks for me to find. So I gave up, backed up all essentials, and then wiped everything. Back up and running much quicker.
I would’ve done it if it was me who created the installation. Did it for the reinstall.
Next time try NixOS or use BTRFS snapshots.