Wait isn’t this the standard? Debugging can take hours, but it takes like 5min to reinstall
This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.
Reinstall? Nah… I have a bunch of virtual machines, which I set up and customised the way I like. Then I back them up. Use a VM for a few months, back up personal data (if any), delete them, copy from backup, power up, install latest updates and go with it again. Depending on their function, I keep the VM for longer (gaming instance) or shorter (Internet/office) periods before replacing them. That’s become just basic computer hygiene for me.
Wow I think I want to do this too. Can I ask which hypervisor you use? And, can you get gaming performance in a VM like you can on bare metal?
Actually, I’m using Type-2, regularly three VM images (not at the same time). The Internet/Office is the recent Mint version (Cinnamon; I just like the interface). The gaming VM for “modern” games is also Mint. For older gaming, I actually use a Win98SE image.
To explain the gaming: I almost exclusively play adventure games and turn-based strategies. For TBS, the replay value is very high, so I’m still happy with somewhat old titles, such as Heroes of Might and Magic II and III, Microprose strategies or Stars!. I found Win98SE to be the OS where most of them run best. Adventure games don’t have such a high replay value, but there’s a steady stream of new ones (via GOG) that usually work in Mint as well. As a result, I don’t feel the need for a type-1 hypervisor, and can’t tell how performant the games would be on bare metal.
me running it on hyper v and reverting to a clean install snapshot the moment I write one command slightly wrong
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.
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
I use timeshift and it has saved my ass quite a few times!
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
I managed to get it to start uninstalling my desktop. I just went back to Windows for my daily driver lol. Maybe if I didn’t panic and hit ctrl-C it would have reinstalled newer versions or something?
This was me back in the days when breaking anything xorg related
I normally troubleshoot for an hour or so. After that, I’m reinstalling. Fuck this shit 😂
earlier days? this was me last week after failing miserably to install poetry 4 times in a row and destroying my python environment.
Early days? I do this even today if I don’t have enough skills to fix it.
Timeshift makes all the difference, no more panicking after breaking something.
Used to end up doing that like once a month.
