it's a sad day, the first time i competely fucked my computer

blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net to Linux@lemmy.ml – 17 points –

i tried to get kde plasma on my fedora, when i booted it up there was just a black screen. i couldn't type any commands either, it was toast

thankfully i've got windows dual booted because i'm a filthy gamer-gulag who uses it for vr games. unfortunately windows doesn't let me see my linux drive's files so all of my personal files are unrecoverable.

thankfully i think the most i had on my computer was my music (yt-dlp is so easy i can get it all back in 30 minutes tops) and a few files from some project i was working on, sucks but not worth spending hours troubleshooting. oh well.

on the bright side, i'm RETVRN-ing to my old reliable, linux mint with xfce. i'll miss hot corner and the other niceties that gnome has but xfce will be a bit more comfortable for me.

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Can you not do something with gparted on a live usb? Or are the files that fucked?

i tried, but i guess they really are just that fucked. i have no idea what i did wrong. this is the last time i try and do something without a guide on linux, i am not smart enough for this lmao

imo the best feeling is finding out the root cause and unfucking the system when it's like this