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    15 days ago

    If you have backups, reinstall.

    If you don’t, boot a “live CD” USB stick and make a backup, then reinstall.

    Then think about how this happened and how to avoid it in the future:

    I tried updating Kubuntu to the newest version, and it got screwed up the first time,

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      15 days ago

      Something i recently learned:

      Your live usb does not need to be the same distro as your main. (And in retrospect that makes total sense but i never realized)

      My arch install broke and could not get timeshift to roll back using the arch live usb. But a ubuntu-desktop live usb worked flawlessly.

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        Yes, for data recovery you really just need something to access the drives.