So I had one of my best Linux moments last night.
I fucked it up. I run KUbuntu 22.04, NVidia, and an older 8th Gen Intel processor. (Not relevant, just because.)
So last night, I was playing with installing unbound/pihole on my desktop to use as a local nameserver. Nice idea right?
Didn't work out the way i wanted it to, so I went back to my actual Pi and went to uninstall pihole and it ganked my system. Blew up the network stack, Xwindows...no idea what happened, spent a few minutes tinkering but realizing it had removed packages that I would need to go back to USB (or be able to get online) for I decided not to mess with it.
So I rebuilt last night. 30 minutes from boot-from-usb to "it's up and running", apt update/upgrade, remount my /home over the existing one, reboot again and boom. Everything is back. as I installed packages like Discord, Evolution, and the stuff I use for work, everything just worked, didn't even have to re-log-into email. Thank god all my config information lives in my home directory and not in some mystical registry that is made to be obscure. (Security through obscurity I suspect)
(My /home directory lives on a second NVMe drive on the mainboard, so no matter what happens to my root drive, my docs/data is safe.)
And *THAT* is why I love Linux.
Neofetch
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