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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Go through all installed packages and remove "bloat".
Add third party repositories.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Removing bloat doesn’t necessarily make things unstable. I remove all the games from my KDE Plasma installs. The primary mistake that can occur in removing non-essential programs is ignoring the list of programs that this is a dependency of or also removes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago
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