Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 22 days agoTinkering and Stabilitylemm.eeimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down13file-text
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What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-221 days agoonce you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues: deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine) switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind” playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch) bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh) changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”
minus-squareyoumaynotknow@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 days ago changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year” That’s the only part I disagree with. Software not updated in a long time can easily become a risk. Everything else though, spot in.
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·21 days agoaimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”
minus-squareyoumaynotknow@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 days agoLooking at it from that standpoint, you’re onto something on that as well.
minus-squareChurbleyimyam@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days ago bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh I’ll admit that I’ve done this with a few things that I wanted to install but weren’t in my repo…
once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:
curl | sudo sh
)That’s the only part I disagree with. Software not updated in a long time can easily become a risk.
Everything else though, spot in.
aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”
Looking at it from that standpoint, you’re onto something on that as well.
I’ll admit that I’ve done this with a few things that I wanted to install but weren’t in my repo…