Lol this is still me after 20 years of using linux
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Right? Decades of Linux use, been a Linux admin for half of it. Still reinstall when I'm not happy with the way things are going. It's just faster.
Yeah fedora screwed up TODAY so I'm just reinstalling
And running into issues encrypting my swap so wishing I had just tried to solve the problem :p
Backup. Fuck it. Learn . Fix. Repeat ad nauseam .
I did this without having my distro broken. It was like "oh shiny, let me try this distro"
Honesty just make /home a different partition.
Has saved me so much trouble in changing distros on my laptop.
Iβve settled pretty well on Fedora at this point but thatβll probably change at some point (mostly because I donβt like Ubuntu much and I work in a mostly RHEL shop)
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BTRFS is your friend guys and gals βΊοΈ.
I switching to BTRFS recently, but found myself even more fucked when my system stopped working suddenly and I didn't know how to fix it without reformatting and installing grub again. Actually lost even more than I would have otherwise just because I wasn't knowledgeable enough to get any form of recovery to work. That first EndeavourOS install didn't last 2 months sadly.
Yep, everyone goes through that the first 2 or 3 installs, until you learn how CoW FSes work. It's not like anything else and it takes a while to master it, but once you learn how to use it, you don't reinstall ever again, just roll back snapshots π.
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The fresh feeling of a reinstall lasts for about a week.
This was me back when I disto hopped. Screwing something up was really just an excuse to try something new.
Now I'm I'm in a comfortable rut, but after recently having to set up a new machine from scratch NixOS is starting to look tempting.
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Then there's the cloud: "Oh, crap. I have a typo in a config file. I guess I'll destroy the machine and set up a whole new one!"
I switch distro once I start feeling that my current installation is too bloated and requires a heavy cleaning
Which is why I switched to nixos, so that I canβt bloat my system up with packages I eventually forget about
NixOS is so incredibly stable it's crazy. Even if my entire computer implodes I can just download my couple config files off github and get exactly the same system on a different computer.
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Early days? I do this even today if I don't have enough skills to fix it.
Since getting a NAS I now think of everything else as volatile storage
Iβm on Unraid now and have most of my services migrated to docker containers but on my previous build, I was just running Ubuntu Server a majority of the time.
I got a little scared thinking about all of the manual configuration Iβve done over time to this build and knew that if I needed to reinstall Iβd essentially be fucked.
Like what tf is a fstab again?
So I took a few hours to learn Ansible and wrote a playbook that could configure my build nearly 100% in just one click. Changed the game.
If anyone knows of something similar with Unraid configs let me know bc I really did enjoy the ansible process
I use timeshift and it has saved my ass quite a few times!
Used to end up doing that like once a month.
I haven't properly dotfilesed all of my rice yet, so I'm just hoping l don't break something until I get that sorted.
mostly happens with Ubuntu. i don't know if iam built to crash it but i always tend to break it. i have been using fedora nobara for the last couple of month and i didn't break it once
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This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.
Being able to easily and freely upgrade, experiment, and reinstall is one of the big perks of Linux. Carry on.
Thatβs how the pros do it.
Oh, for the days of constant distro-hopping ...
Literally this morning I started getting boot errors. It is telling me WBM can't find the boot file. But I should be booting into grub, so idk what to do. My boot order is Ubuntu, then USB. And that's it. And now I'm out of the house all day and can't do anything but sweat about it.
Sounds like Windows rewrote boot manager. It likes to do that sometimes. Basically your only choice is taking live USB booting into it and reinstalling grub.
This is likely what happened. I think I'm gonna format the Windows SSD attached to the server (old install) and reinstall grub. Tomorrow, I guess. :(
Edit: Now that I've had a moment to think, I realized that I deleted grub. It was on another SSD that I wiped. It was on the SSD that my old OS was on that I wasn't using anymore. But my actual Linux install came from another computer. So when I dropped it in what became my server, I installed grub manually on the old SSD (which has now been wiped) to boot to my Linux SSD.
This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.
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
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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.
earlier days? this was me last week after failing miserably to install poetry 4 times in a row and destroying my python environment.
Me rn frfr
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
Ah, the Windows approach. The few times I worked with PC Repair shops, backing up everything and reinstalling the OS was the go to for most "repairs". Especially since it was faster and cheaper than just researching all the issues and repairing them the "right" way. Although to be fair, if the OS is borked enough, backup + reinstall IS the right way.
Reminds me, that I want to "fix" my install.
I reinstalled Linux when it crashes, or used Timeshift for years, but at this time I learned totally nothing.
Then I tried Arch manual installation, and it changes my mind.
When I decided to switch to Fedora, I wanted a safety net. I had a 500GB SSD, so I bought an additional 2TB SSD, so I could make full disk image backups and be able to store 3 of them (I used full disk encryption, so my disk image backups were the full 500GB). And I dutifully made backups, either monthly, before I made a big change, or before a major update. Been doing this for nearly two years now and I haven't used a single backup image even once. It's almost disappointing, in a perverse sort of way. I was looking forward to having to learn stuff by fixing things that break, but nothing ever does!
Now I just run suse tumbleweed with snapshots and if anything breaks I just recover from snapshot.
me whose samsung laptop will only reliably boot with kubuntu:
:(
This was me back in the days when breaking anything xorg related
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.
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