Fought a good fight with linux today. Trying to install Debian Trixie. I had Bookworm installed for a couple years. Finally took the plunge to reinstall for newstable.

Getting stupid errors. I realized what I did to get the errors. Tried to boot up into a live environment to fix my issue and the USB imploded on me.

So now I have no working laptop or install medium or USB drive.

Since my tablet is dead I'll recharge that overnight to see if I can fix the USB drive or buy a new one and create another boot medium to reinstall on my laptop.

Come to think about it, I didn't have an install medium to boot to last time and had to do the same thing with the tablet. Lmao

My initial issue was creating a luks2 setup on my partitions in a way that isn't supported with the partitioner. Instead, creating ext4 partitions to encrypt with luks2.

Another issue was that I created a /data mount point but you can't simply name one to
encrypt during the installation process. Making one post-installation is easier.

Tonight, I mostly fought myself over stupid semantics. I'm not sure why but I feel this is also partial to #enshittification.

#linux #software #debian semantics