Not OP, but can only speak from my experience: Installing a second WM/DE usually messes up my install, as quite some stuff is just from one GUI framework, so I don’t have to have to much stuff installed.
Also getting rid of it afterwards always wasn’t as easily possible.

I completely get trying out a WM y firing up a VM. You could even just boot the live USB stick to check it out.
But changing my working install just to try something (and then have to clean it up again) wasn’t working out for me in the past

Happens to everyone

Just having a multitude of terminals open with a mix of test environment and (just for comparison) an open connection to the production servers…

We were at a fair/exhibition once and on the first day people working on an actual customer project asked us, if they could compare with our code.
Obviously they flashed the wrong PLC and we were stuck dead at the first hours of the exhibition.
I still think that this place was cursed, as we also had to do multiple re-soldering of some connections of our robot and the sherry on top was the system flash dying - where I had fucked up, because I just finished everything late at night and didn’t made a complete backup of everything.
But it seems, if luck runs out, you lose on all fronts.

At least I was able to restore everything in 20mins. Which must be some kind of record.
But I was shaking so much from the stress, that I couldn’t efficiently type anymore and was lucky to have a colleague to just calmly enter what I told him to and with that we’re able to get the show case up and running again.

Well, at least the beer afterwards tasted like the liquid of the gods

Never touch a running system
Until you have a inviting hole in your system

Nevertheless, I’m panicking every time I update my sever infrastructure…

Link has a “whttps” in there, that shouldn’t be there

I had a really hard time even finding a new car that isn’t classified as a SUV

This trend fucking sucks, but it seems that there are currently not many options on the market besides oversized und bulky SUVs

Well, the Laptop is still not released. Not sure what I can say more about it :⁠-⁠\

Anyone have some experience with StarLabs?

Ordered a StarFighter like more than half a year ago and am losing confidence in the company…

How would ketamine help? Sleeping or tripping soldiers aren’t really what you want on the field, or what do I miss?

I haven’t seen many argue that Israel is in the right. Hamas is nothing I would support, but Israel is undoubtedly going for a complete sweep of Gaza

So, you think original china will take over the communist mainland again?

Just like your toothbrush and pretty much everything else
This stuff is everywhere…

But yeah, shit stained towels aren’t the way to go. And I sometimes don’t trust how clean I think I am…

Yeah, because Friedman’s free market shock doctrine shit just isn’t working.

Free market regulating itself is the next bullshit argument

That would be a real cool name for an OS specialized for old devices

I think Thiel is worse for the world. Elon musk is more show and shine - and crumbles spectacular anyway

Not quite sure where this happened, maybe it was Colombia. I saw a documentary a few weeks ago about the same issue (was a country in South America, but can’t really say if it was Ecuador, Peru or Colombia). Those mines were used by the locals to earn some money. Then the state sold the rights to an Australian company and with that the locals needed to leave.

So, I guess it’s not really about the environment…

As long as the laptop boots, you should be able to switch to a TTY console, where you have a complete shell interface to your system after logging in (in said TTY console). So, being greeted with a login screen or something is a win here - but you’re very vague in your report.

The GUI is only just a program and has nothing to do with your boot options in BIOS or bootloader (like grub).

Using CTRL-ALT-[F1-9/0] you can switch between your virtual consoles and on only one of them your GUI is running.
You can use any other one to change anything on the system from CLI.
You should also be able to stop the current GUI/X11 Session and directly start the window manager you wish - temporarily to fix your system, if you’re not confident in the CLI.

The most positive thing about the internet is the possibility of open discussion. Taking away anonymity e.g. destroys many online self-help groups, that don’t want to be associated with their issue. And also the china-like surveillance issue is coming with it. I want a transparent state, not a transparent citizen.

uff… confidentially wrong like ChatGPT