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Which distro should I use?
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Yes and the manual install taught me how to deal with DEs refusing to start without having to do a full reinstall.
It's such a pleasure to be able to save your setup no matter what the issue, apart from the time I accidentally erased my hard drive with a
sudo rm -rf *command that was supposed to wipe a USB drive.