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Eh, I've had worse. I'd actually like it if it included FDE (my spare Artix laptop has this config, while my main is stuck with home encryption (on seperate partition)and Suse TW, which is kinda chaotic. I complained about openrc being a pain to daily, but Artix actually makes it good and feels actually stable.
You can backup via a live enviroment anyway.
I ran linux with ext2, no timeshift, and home on the root partition. Back then when I ran the machine on kernel 0.97.
Even ext4 still has safety measures (BLOAT!11!!1) because of journaling.
This is why i compile my kernels on ext2 with without swap for maximum utilization /j
How do you know about me.
I made a /home partition on eOS at least! But given that the drive is only 128G, I don't store much in it that isn't synced from desktop.
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This is my setup that I have been using for years. I have never had a serious Linux update issue that could not be fixed.
Well la dee da look at this guy who knows how to fix linux!
Yeehaw!
I, too, am familiar with the art of grub rescue env!
I have seen its darkest depths.
And oh how deep they doth go!
(I use arch btw)
Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.
Exactly. Nothing of importance is stored solely there anyway.
And for me I need every single GB for installing games, no space left for backup management.
I run a live real time dist straight into ram. I communicate with Linux telepathically.
Non-issue. I just scatter fragments of my data across so many devices that some version of something is bound to be somewhere. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
This is me with endeavourOS lmao. Anything important is on my mega/Codeberg. If it dies it dies
the one thing i wish i knew when i first installed linux was to put /home on another drive (i do symlink downloads and anything else now but i wish i did it on my desktop when i first switched)
Are you meaning on a different partition or a completely different hard drive?
well my desktop has the main ssd where i installed it too but that is pretty small while the second drive is something like 2tb so that's where i would have put it. its honestly not bad now i had a brief panic where it ran out but ive symlinked a lot in /home over to the new place its just wish i understood the advanced partitioning when i first set it up that's all.
Not too difficult to fix this in post.
You say it's not too difficult, but, I guarantee you, if I tried to do this, I'd lose not only my /home, but also my game drive. I'm that kind of dumb.
if it breaks, just fix it
A separate partition for /home/
Why havenβt I thought of this before??
you can use it to (sometimes) transplant your personal config and documents onto another OS, but it comes with the tradeoff of losing space in root that might be used for massive libraries (compute libraries suck in this regard).
And sometimes your /home will depend on things that your rootfs doesn't have, which has caused problems for me before. But if you planned for these things beforehand, and your installed software doesn't do something really dumb, it can work out pretty well, although my personal experience with this is limited to effectively embedded Linux where this is usually a non-issue.
Nah. We just know how to boot a broken system and fix it.
Timeshift? BTRFS Snapper layout!
I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem
Same here, not sure what they on about.
I third this
I'm stupid and I didn't know there was other ways of living
Dotfiles in git my dude.
Edit: or even better chezmoi with dotfiles and ansible bootstrapping
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.
idk Arch's timeline, but back in Janurary CachyOS changed from using SDDM to Plasma Login Manager and their news release had some manual commands to enter in to migrate more smoothly.
every login manager was broken, it'd just crash after I put in my password. It was the final straw
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.
dies
"Welp, time to distrohop."
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.
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