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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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So I recently deleted Linux because it was too addicting to me, and accidently locked 300gigs of my drive away. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know what I did but I must've messed up somehow while deleting the distro, so now I only have 700 gigs of my total 1tb of disk space left, when I try to merge the other unallocated 300gigs of space back to the drive, it says "there's not enough space in the disk(s)". Anyone willing to help? here are the screenshots:

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, yes you're right about that. I still want to continue using Linux, I guess Ubuntu would be a better choice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Longtime linux user, I settled on using (K)ubuntu based systems at home. Main reason for me is that it's a very well-supported distro and whatever issue you come accross someeone else probably had it happening before. Always having the bleeding edge stuff is asking for trouble imho.

That doesn't mean I don't check out other distributions but I tend to run those in virtual machines. Might be an option for you as well? Play around with Linux in a virtual machine before committing fully to it?