Post #3939288
2026-07-19 17:57 UTC
I’ve been using Linux as my main OS for about 15 years. I had my system break down in other occasions in the same way you describe.
It is a nuisance, but luckily it never was a major problem. I believe once I had to reinstall the system, I was very happy to have a separate home partition.
I’m not sure what you mean by layering apps over the system, that could be interesting. Especially because I imagine something like a VPN needs root access. Is it possible to install a binary as a service with root access if that is not available in the repositories? I do for example have to use a quite obscure VPN protocol.
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@marcie@lemmy.ml 2026-07-19 18:01
Yeah. You can layer it like a git repo fork layers it’s changes. If something breaks you can just clear that forked branch and redo it. Takes like 2 minutes to fix. So yeah you can alter system files in a very safe way and can easily revert changes if you don’t like the result.