• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    When I was new to Linux I broke EVERYTHING.

    Often.

    The more you break, the more you learn.

    Nobody tells me I can’t modify this file.

    Eg. I once accidentally chmodded the entire root directory. (Recursion incident)

    Linux does not like when the root fs permissions are ALL changed.

    I had no internet at the time. And no idea what timeshift was.

    Thankfully, I had a library card.

    Learned a lot about permissions that month.

    (I enjoy doing things the hard way)

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      Did you manage to get your system working again? Iirc I did the same on Arch a few years ago and it wasn’t too bad to restore the system after looking at the permissions on a fresh install (maybe a container or vm, idr).