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Well, now everything seems to work!
So thanks a lot, even if I still don't really understand what the problem was.
Reinstalling everything would have been a nightmare so I'm really happy everything works.
The dnf clean deleted old downloaded packages. You will probably hit disk space issues again soon, so I suggest you resize your root partition at some stage if possible. Use a gparted livecd.
I’ll have a look into this at one point.
But then I might be dumb but I don’t understand why everywhere I was checking there seemed to be free space (CLI and GUI).
Such things are a bit frightening when you think that using Linux is way easier than Windows and then you run into these issues.
Windows can have the same problem when you run out of space, but it will at least give you a helpful UI to clean everything up.
Its not clear to me either why it appeared as if there was free space, but it might be the
btrfs
/df
incompatibility the other poster raised.Good luck, and reach out if there are further issues :)
Thanks a lot for the help and advices!
It’s always nice to see how helpful everyone is on Lemmy👍