How to overcome failure and troubleshoot Well, what I remember from it (about 20 years ago now) is mainly this: make/compiler error -> search -> modify obscure

How to overcome failure and troubleshoot Well, what I remember from it (about 20 years ago now) is mainly this: make/compiler error -> search -> modify obscure file -> repeat. For days in row. At that time I didn't exactly know a lot about programming so most of it was just dumb copy-pasting without knowing what was going on. I do think it was useful (hard to tell - I seem to be able to fix pretty much everything in the SW depertment these days but that's probably a sign of attitude in general, much less thanks to LfS), but also lead to a bit of a distaste for linux. I.e. after having spent weeks like that with lfs, and then again when deciding to go for gentoo, and then again with debian, there wasn't much fun in it anymore. Only a 'been there, done that, now give me something which just works' feeling.