Cursed Zorin OS no boot

[next wharf]

Is there a way I can reinstall zorin os without wiping my data? I fucked up the system partition while building libc6 from source, don't ask.

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[kindred tree]

did you create that home partition, or was it there before?

[next wharf]

There before

[kindred tree]

was a root (/) partition there as well?

[next wharf]

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

[kindred tree]

better do a resintall them. Also good to have backups and use stuff like timeshift for situations like these so you can reset to a previous state when everything was right.

[next wharf]

Oh ok

Is it ok if i encrypt the data

[kindred tree]

yeah, it could only be an issue if you wanted to change the structure of you partitions afterward like changing size, etc, other than that, it's ok, afaik.

[next wharf]

Hmm ill just keep it unencypted and use another os for stuff I need safe

[kindred tree]

you can also use keepassxc, it also allows you to save files and stuff, besides passwords

it's a password manager app

it stores them locally in an encrypted file

[next wharf]

I personally try to stay away from those. I will check it out though.

[kindred tree]

you can manage things locally, and it's also open source, so it can be less problematic, though I recommend you to research and testing it before using it completely.

[next wharf]

BTW is there a way I can encrypt things without the backdoor that intel and amd have?

I live in the US

[kindred tree]

I'm not sure about that though

[next wharf]

Ok

[polar moth]

yes it should be pretty simple assuming your partition isnt corrupted (it seems it isn't). first thing I want you to is open the Disks app and show me your disk layout

the procedure will be different depending on what your layout is. you can just make a new partition and rsync your personal stuff to the new one.
and keep in mind, do not ever compile from source packages that are used by the system. you can often break the os by compiling some non important one. but with a c library, no other component was made to work with the newer version. so it'll just break inmidietly. I'm not sure why you would even want a newer version? and please do set up a snapshot system, so that you can just revert in 3 minutes and not have to deal with this

[next wharf]

Ok, I need a newer version of c for some programs

[polar moth]

then use an OS that supports it?

[next wharf]

Oh

But zorin os is the best

Oh well

[polar moth]

but it doesn't work

[next wharf]

Yeah...

I'll just use ubuntu 24.xx

It has gnome 47

[polar moth]

do you want to do the no data loss reinstall still or no

[next wharf]

I just copied the important stuff over to my other hard drive

So I'll switch to plain ubuntu

[polar moth]

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