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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Just moved to Linux: a follow up (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it's been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol.
Fortunately I kept my /home on its own partition, so this shouldn't be too bad to get back up and running as desired.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install.

Just wait until you learn the powers of chroot :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Few days ago I downgraded glibc(I'm dumdum) because it was recommended in a reddit thread for a problem I was having. I couldn't even chroot. Fortunately I could update with pacman --root

[–] Grass 5 points 8 months ago

This is the way