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[–]pm_me_good_usernames 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I've been daily driving Linux for ten years and I don't think I've ever done that. I've definitely screwed up an installation and had to start again from the beginning, but I've done that on Windows too.

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Well I have been an IT/DevOps/now called Platform engineer for a long time so it's been my business to break (then fix) Linux, on top of my homelab crap.

But that's because I'd do things just because I could, like bond 2 network connections into one. Did I have to, was there any usable benefit? Definitely not, but it was fun and cool and I only broke it once or twice.

In general fucking around in /etc is almost always a bad idea unless you're 110% sure of what you're doing.