Timeshift? BTRFS Snapper layout!
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This is me with endeavourOS lmao. Anything important is on my mega/Codeberg. If it dies it dies
A separate partition for /home/
Why havenβt I thought of this before??
if it breaks, just fix it
Nah. We just know how to boot a broken system and fix it.
dies
"Welp, time to distrohop."
Dotfiles in git my dude
Arch has never "broken" on me through my 3 years of using it, but after a while weird issues would start to appear. Like for example my login manager just stopped working permanently and I had to do startplasma-wayland. Ssh agents also subtly broke. Stuff like that. I forgot to enable fstrim and my system freaked out during I/O eventually. These are all technically user error, but I don't feel like spending so much time on managing my operating system.
I ended up switching to Fedora and was pleasantly surprised how well it's setup by default.
Honestly agree, it's always the little issues that are problems.
The problem with btrfs is no installer I've seen supports reusing an existing subvol for your home partition. Not that I can figure out at least.
I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem
I'm stupid and I didn't know there was other ways of living
Same here, not sure what they on about.
I third this
I check all these boxes. This install is ancient now. I moved the disk into a new PC (Intel/nvidia to amd/amd) and it didn't even stutter.
I had issues in the past, sure, but nothing really severe. Archlinux.org frontpage has information on breaking updates if need be.
Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don't think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn't responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I'm running.
If you don't count my 6 years with Manjarno, I've used Arch for ~7 years and only 3 times I had to fix something, 2 times because of Nvidia, once my fault. I had way more problems with Ubuntu in the past than Arch by the way. :)
There's the argument to be made that all three were your fault, since you decided to use nvidia on Linux.
Hyuk hyuk hyuk.
Well, I also used ATI in the past but it was way worse. :)
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
there are two types of computer users
- those who make backup
- those who never had a hard disk crash
- Everything is replaceable
Not me!
- average person
- Assuming you do have a backup
I honestly can't think of a thing I'd want to backup. Game saves, resumes, media. Its all replaceable and not worth backing up. I dont think I have a single "important" document or picture or anything.
It's time saved rebuilding all of it
Or those who can fix it.
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what's a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in
never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about
to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.
Old man meme. It's like saying "you need the command line for Linux!"
Decade running arch on a laptop w encrypted drives, the only fails were from powerdevil.
btrfs with pacman hook and i do backups semi reguralry (monthly + -)
I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?
Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.
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I'm rawdogging my Debian Unstable install
Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.
By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.
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