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    [–] Electronium@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] morain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    Oh, for the days of constant distro-hopping ...

    [–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    That’s how the pros do it.

    [–] Leer10@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

    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

    [–] kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] PlebsicleMcGee@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

    Since getting a NAS I now think of everything else as volatile storage

    [–] Scridgeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] Foliik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    This is the way

    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    Reinstalling is Windows (and sometimes macOS) logic. On Linux just fix whatever it is and move on.

    [–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] camasii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    This is precisely the hampster wheel that felt like it led me to osx.

    [–] Marxine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

    [–] p_consti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    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

    [–] ls64@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    earlier days? this was me last week after failing miserably to install poetry 4 times in a row and destroying my python environment.

    [–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

    me whose samsung laptop will only reliably boot with kubuntu:
    :(

    [–] Pe4rl@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    Reminds me, that I want to "fix" my install.

    [–] MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

    [–] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    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

    [–] BlueDepth9279@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.

    Used to end up doing that like once a month.

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