What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?

    • Lantern@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Removing bloat doesn’t necessarily make things unstable. I remove all the games from my KDE Plasma installs. The primary mistake that can occur in removing non-essential programs is ignoring the list of programs that this is a dependency of or also removes.

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      2 days ago

      Ahaha. That hurts.

      Pro-Tip: Even if you don’t program in Python, it might be necessary for several of your applications.

      • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeOP
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        21 hours ago

        New linux user goes online to find out how to list installed packages in the terminal. Starts removing the ones they don’t recognise.

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        2 days ago

        Ah yes, I’ve made that mistake, too.
        Also, going through Synaptic and deleting everything you don’t know.