With the exception of my home data, this is why I switched to Fedora Silverblue. I got past the experimental phase and just wanted a linux that would work without thoughts
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Oh, for the days of constant distro-hopping ...
Hey, at least we have the option to fix things. My poor Windows friends end up reinstalling multiple times a year due to unfixable issues and bugs.
I don't have many spare devices to do backups so I started using Fedora Kionite. I highly recommend installing ublue if anyone uses Silverblue/Kionite.
- rm -rf /*
- ???
- profit
It didn't happen THAT often before, but as a previous Windows user and restore point fan, Timeshift was a game changer. Don't have to tread lightly anymore. :D
I'm sure that timeshift has saved me more hours of sleep and dealing with crap than every other piece of software combined.
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This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.
That’s how the pros do it.
Reinstalling is Windows (and sometimes macOS) logic. On Linux just fix whatever it is and move on.
I feel this. I used to do it all the time when I first got into Linux. Immutable distros will make this a non-issue.
As a noob, I wonder what would be the right way to do it?
Bro its so easy, simply have 5 years of linux experience. Legit tho I've been trying linux out for a long time and the only computer I really try to repair instead of reinstalling is my server, cuz I don't remotely remember how I set that thing up in the first place.
Early days? I do this even today if I don't have enough skills to fix it.
can't say I've ever done this. better to figure out why it's broken and fix it so that the next time I encounter that kinda problem, I can fix it quickly.
This is the way
Considering I'd rather not spend the weekend troubleshooting stuff when I have my house to clean before returning to work on Monday, and a simple backup > reinstall will take me less than 6h at most (counting all customization and etc), I'll take a full reinstall any time.
Edit: Oh, now I reread that's about the early days. Would do the same though.
Have a friend who still does this. Every so often he'll notice that something is missing from a previous reinstall and we have to take a second to bring his system back on track
This was me back in the days when breaking anything xorg related
Me rn frfr
me whose samsung laptop will only reliably boot with kubuntu:
:(
Reminds me, that I want to "fix" my install.
If you just want to get shit done sure just reinstall and you are good to go, but I see these issues as a learning opportunity and I have tons of free time so I try and fix my system for hours on end. Also it rarely breaks so not much time is wasted.
Broke my ZorinOS install by trying to upgrade parts of the OS by myself so I could run newer software and lived like that for months until I gave up and switched to Fedora