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    [–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yesterday morning i installed Mint xfce on an old laptop.

    I wanted to install synaptics drivers for the touchpad because i use the trackball as mouse but need the touchpad for clicking. Something that isnt configureable in the default driver.

    When i copied an example config file and added my line, i rebooted the computer.

    The GUI broke because in the example config file, there were "..." To indicate writing further options, but xorg couldnt interpret or ignore it, so i had to figure out how to edit textfiles in the command line.

    No fun times, and definetely a risk for new users.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    This story is literally every experienced Linux users first horror story.

    I still remember the first time I broke my xorg config on my shiny new slackware 10 install in early 2005.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

    It's so common there's an XKCD about it.