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    I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install… (lemmy.world)
    submitted 9 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program

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    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    Second approach is better as it teaches you to fix and understand the system you're working with

    Of course, this is a more complicated and energy - demanding approach, though. But if you wanna stay on Linux, you better figure such stuff out, this will be invaluable in the long run.

    I should also mention that Debian, despite the Bookworm introducing more user-friendly options, is not a newbie-centered distribution and fixing things in there tend to be more tedious for an inexperienced user.

    The upside, however, is that once you've set it up, everything will just work. But first you might face some pain.

    [–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I wish there was a way to see what the default values in a config file are for a given distro.
    I'm guessing there probably is, and I just don't know it.

    Maybe I should just make / a git repo...

    [–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

    Don't modify the config in /etc/, copy them in ~/.config/ and then modify them. You'll always be able to just look at the /etc/ for defaults.

    [–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Usually if its a boolean or nullable, a good config file will have a # uncommemt this line to enable this feature/disable this feature/bind to this IP address/give this thing a name that is at least vaugely hints what the option does. But yes, its still fairly annoying.

    [–] barsquid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

    You should check out the Fedora atomic distros if you haven't already. Making the system work more like a git repo is what they are doing with rpm-ostree. I am liking it a lot.

    [–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

    Without knowing a better way, my go-to solution woukd just be getting an full installation image and diffing my files with the files on it