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  • rImITywR@lemmy.worldtoKDE@lemmy.kde.socialMacBook Air owner?
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    6 months ago

    “Not as shit as you could be” is not something we should be praising. A handful of years is still too short, just because it is marginally better than their competitors doesn’t mean we should give Apple a pass. It just means that the industry is full of shitty companies that profit off of producing e-waste, and know that consumers have no real choice but to put up with it.






  • rImITywR@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlConsidering Starting Linux
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    11 months ago

    You don’t even need any hardware to get started. Fire up a virtual machine in VirtualBox or VMWare or use WSL. Start playing around, find a distro/DE you like and start learning.

    After some time, look into dual booting your existing machine. You can try this in a virtual machine first before making any changes to you hardware.





  • Do you have an earlier snapshot that you can roll back to? If not then this is a learning experience about how you should take a snapshot before doing any configuration changes/updates. And also maybe some automatic ones on a schedule (daily/weekly).

    As far as recovering files, you could try the Windows recovery environment (or whatever they call it). Take a snapshot first, in case it makes things worse.

    You could also try mounting the virtual disk to your host system. https://www.baeldung.com/linux/mount-qcow2-image

    Or try booting the VM with a live boot environment of your favorite distro, similar to how you would do recovery from a dead physical machine.