So I uninstalled Zenless Zone Zero yesterday via Wine, and it seems it just deleted every game, KDE configs, etc.
These weren’t really an issue for me, but my old worlds have gone to waste too. Unfortunately, my drive is on ext4, and I haven’t used Timeshift cause low storage space. Is there any chance for me to recover back some data?
This won’t help you right now, but in the future: If you don’t have time to setup some super good backup, just get a cheap TB USB stick and sudo tar --one-file-system your partition root directories onto it.
tar has a test option, so you can detect if the USB stick is maybe broken.
This stores everything but some boot stuff, which can usually be restored with booting some live medium (like the install medium you used) and going into a chroot. Almost all live mediums have tar, chroot and can mount your USB stick, so you can restore your stuff.
Despite some people being afraid the USB may lose the data, it takes several years for it to do so. Enough for home PC backups.
Hmm this sounds like a great idea, although I was already planning to get a new nvme SSD, but good to know options like these exists.
If it’s not a cheap knock off USB stick, then yea it’s probably more than enough.
Make sure you get the flash drive from a reputable seller. Sites like amazon have lots of fakes that are actually a much lower capacity than they report.
Another option is a SSD and external enclosure.