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    [โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿคฃ. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you're not careful enough. Fun times.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's things like this that prevent me from using Linux more.

    I force myself to use it for projects where it's an option because I feel I need to learn it better but I kind of dread it every time.

    Inevitably I'm stuck frustrated reading conflicting guides from years ago and wondering just how badly I'm going to fuck things up this time.

    Sometimes it all feels so esoteric.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What kind of things do you need to do? For software development my experience is that it's just install and you can start working. Maybe one tutorial to get kubernetes running locally.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Generally deploying some kind of service.

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