Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.
Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.
I removed python.
Ha, I did the same thing. Was getting really tired of pip issues and attempting to use pyenv and messing up a lot. Figured I’d start clean.
Didn’t realize so much depended on python and ended up needing to rebuild the whole thing.
Now I don’t mess with python on my host and only use VMs for Dev or messing around.
I almost did that with python2. Also, some programs just have weird libraries that I’ve been close to uninstall, then see 4705894095 programs that would be uninstalled along with it.
After ruining some installations and learning some more, I started questioning the fact that pyenv and some venv management are not taught at the beggining.