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

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Looking at it from that standpoint, you're onto something on that as well.