I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install…

https://lemmy.world/post/16359419

I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install… - Lemmy.World

It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program

Use Timeshift, use Timeshift, use Timeshift.

Ok. I’ve downloaded, tar and gun zipped the files for it.

Then did a make build and then make install. Now my system won’t start. What do I do?

What
In the off chance that this isn’t a joke, does your distro really not have timeshift binaries?
I have saved 3 reinstall or 1 week of troubleshooting in only 3 “fuck around and find out” incidents.
saved me when I deleted the wrong partition.

Same, it’s saved my butt so many times. Once in the middle of a tech conference, I was messing around in the terminal with my networking and borked something really bad.

I spent 5 minutes trying to get my networking back but couldn’t figure out what I had screwed up and ended up breaking it more.

I just went into Timeshift and restored to the beginning of that day and in a few minutes I was back up like nothing had happened.

I guess I’m the only one timeshift always fails for.