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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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Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by towelie@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not clear what you've done here, but I've never played with the purge command. I take it you removed a lot of basic packages. How did it happen? Wildcards?

[–] towelie@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I can't entirely recall the precise details now, but I was trying to uninstall Nvidia and Mesa packages to fix some driver issues. Some mesa-related packages were remaining, and I couldn't figure out why, so I manually typed their names in and purged them, then proceeded to watch python, the desktop environment — everything — all uninstall haha.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

It was all just bloat anyways, who needs anything besides a kernel?