Had To scroll way too far to find Cinnamon so here’s back to the top.

😂 My gosh this hits home. If only I could stop tweaking. It’s always just this one little thing. Then another and on until it’s so fucked I don’t even know where to begin. But it’s magical when she works.

What about Rsync. Does it get love? Any snapshot is good if it works. Backups are the shit.

I just spent 11 days not using my PC. Your sweating after an hour 😂 I was thinking about what laptop I’m gonna buy to replace this broken desktop.

Knock Knock Knock.

We (Jehovah’s Witness) would like to know if you had a minute, so we could come inside, and talk to you about OUR Lord and Savior… Linux Mint.

I’ve messed fstab, passwd, and others up so many times. It’s a stroke to fix it and not being able to use your system for days. Zaps the drive to even mess with the computer.

This is the nightmare of my last 2 weeks. Well 11 days.

If you want shit to just work when you want and stay out the way when you aren’t using it. Debian of whatever source is what they call stability. I’ve done rolling, and bleeding edge. It’s all a constant pain. Becomes a job to maintain or bug track or check logs. I’ll never go back.

I just had 8 titles in boot menu all for the same OS. 🤌😅 I know exactly what I’m doing. It’s a dual boot system.

Not sure you can fully brick a PC. Simple BIOS update and your back to scratch load an OS and go again. Hardware failure. That’s where the bricking happens.

I just spent 11 days on a dual boot repair in fstab, passwd, loads of ecryptfs, amongst other boot and login issues. Before restoring from the full system backup after getting mad to finally want to use my PC. 11 fucking days almost all day in terminal. TOO many partitions and too many folders inside of folders to get to my ecryptfs files. I got so lost LSing around.

After it all though, and it was an aneurism and a half. I still want to finish my goal and reinstall my dual boot this time correctly aiming the folders correctly.

This post/thread needs to be way way higher up for everyone to see. Sounds just like all the malicious nodes on the tor network. Everything gets tapped eventually. Hopefully a solution can be found. What is the easiest method to host a tor and XMR node safely? I’ve got a server PC to offer up for good use. Anything possible on a home network or too risky?

I’m definitely into cinnamon more than the other two. Thanks for the link. I was about to try the XFCE until I seen that. Glad I didn’t waste my time. I’ve got decent hardware so not too concerned about the extra ram etc. I just with cinnamon has KDE customization without getting buggy once you pile on 10 different extensions.

What’s the difference between this and cinnamon?

While I hate windows as much as the next person. I still keep it around for some off the wall games that need anticheat. Don’t sweat the downvotes. Windows spyware sucks but not everyone needs tails and whonix/qubes.

When windows updates it can totally break grub as it tries to flush out anything other than windows by default.

Boot up from a USB drive that’s what I did. I was just about to add the merge list in the update manager as well. Keep me posted if it didn’t work. Best of luck.

Yea that’s it. I couldn’t remember what the options were and I was going to sleep. I’m back online and if you give me a few minutes I can do my best to help. Clear all the options you can and try running sudo apt get update. Sometimes where there’s an input output error it can also be a hardware issue such as a bad block on the drive preventing anything from writing to that block. Go to disks. Find your main drive and repair it, then check it the option above repair. After those two repeat the remove dependencies and duplicate/foreign packages. Finally sudo update. See it that helps.

I fixed this issue on mine and it took me a few tries, while I’m not currently on my PC you should be able to find some tab along the page you can change the mirrors and it says something like clear packages and there’s a few options on a small boxed list deal. Perhaps something like remove duplicate dependencies I really can’t remember the boxes so don’t quote me. You clear all of them that mention remove or clear. Change mirrors then Sudo update your APT then I switched back to the main Jammy is it? Worked for me. I could better help once I’m back to my computer. It happened to me a few weeks ago as well so my memory is hazy. If your still having trouble in 12 hours once I am able to get to my computer I will help you best I can.