Lol this is still me after 20 years of using linux
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
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I work with linux daily, work in IT. Often I just do this as well. Aint got time and energy to fix something while a reinstall takes a fraction of the time
BTRFS is your friend guys and gals ☺️.
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 😉.
I’ve lost so much data to btrfs disk mirrors. Zfs is my friend now.
My favorite part of using Suse was Snapper.
My least favorite part was needing to use it every time they shipped a kernel update because it broke the Nvidia drivers. Eventually I just pinned my kernel version but it didn’t feel sustainable so I swapped back to Ubuntu, which at least in theory tests against the supported drivers. Ubuntu has its own issues so I’ll probably swap again next time my system needs surgery.
I had that on my phone some ten years ago. Ah, the memories. It sucked, though.
Snapshots 4 life
Mhm, pretty much. I haven’t reinstalled since I started using snapshots.
Backup. Fuck it. Learn . Fix. Repeat ad nauseam .
The fresh feeling of a reinstall lasts for about a week.
Honesty just make /home a different partition.
Has saved me so much trouble in changing distros on my laptop.
I’ve settled pretty well on Fedora at this point but that’ll probably change at some point (mostly because I don’t like Ubuntu much and I work in a mostly RHEL shop)
This is exactly what I have done on my personal installs. Saves so much time when there is a problem or when you just feel like distro hopping.
I did this without having my distro broken. It was like “oh shiny, let me try this distro”
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.
Opensuse TW cured my distrohopping more than 1 year ago.
Nix is the only distro that’s tempting me…
Sorry just test it inside vms, or even install it in a partition that you can then delete. You can even try nix just by installing the package manager
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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!”
Being able to easily and freely upgrade, experiment, and reinstall is one of the big perks of Linux. Carry on.
The Windows way.
I once deleted my windows bootloader so even the “consumer windows” is not safe from us
I’m 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 I’ve done over time to this build and knew that if I needed to reinstall I’d 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
Used to end up doing that like once a month.
I use timeshift and it has saved my ass quite a few times!
