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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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So I recently deleted Linux because it was too addicting to me, and accidently locked 300gigs of my drive away. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know what I did but I must've messed up somehow while deleting the distro, so now I only have 700 gigs of my total 1tb of disk space left, when I try to merge the other unallocated 300gigs of space back to the drive, it says "there's not enough space in the disk(s)". Anyone willing to help? here are the screenshots:

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[–] cujo 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just for my personal curiosity, could you clarify what you mean when you say Linux is "too addicting" for you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Share your curiosity.

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

I came here to find out the answer to this question.

[–] cujo 1 points 1 year ago

It's... odd. Apparently they can't pull themselves away, and it caused them to lose sleep tweaking their system and scrolling forums?

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

https://lemmy.world/comment/130434 I've already answered some people

[–] cujo 1 points 1 year ago

I see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lol I was wondering the same thing xD

Sounds like they were hooked on ricing their distro, classic mistake. Once you start ricing, you can't stop lol.

It's like custom PC building, I thought I was bad in college, spending my food and textbook money on PC parts...now I have a custom water cooling loop that cost me nearly as much as my actual PC :P