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So am I the only one distro hopping for fun?
Yes and everyone is talking about it
NixOS is baller, you can have it automatically reinstall and wipe your garbage with Impermanence lol
Then there’s me, reinstalling the OS because it’s quicker than installing the three months’ worth of updates I forgot about.
The main downside to a rolling release distro, with that much drift there’s a good chance something will install that conflicts with something else, and nobody can really help because the only real way to replicate your install is to go back in time and do the same thing
Unless you are using NixOS
YMMV based on distro. IIRC OpenSUSE has upgrade “pathing” to reduce conflicts during long delays between updates. Geckolinux has an iso released 6 months ago and it will update to the latest OpenSUSE packages.
I honestly think Arch could handle 3 months as well as long as you update the keyring and read the update news from Arch.
NixOS rolling wouldn’t give a damn but that’s not really fair since it basically rebuilds the whole system :P
The biggest issue is not getting security updates for 3 months.
reinstalling the os because im to lazy to clean the drives
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Wow. What an unnecessarily meanspirited reply.
please dont correct my english, i have no respect for this language
Understandable, have a nice day, sir.
I’ve been running the same installation since 2012.
obligatory: “arch, btw”
dotbot and a list of apps
My Windows installation breaks and has to be installed every 9 months on average and its so fun
Reinstalling Windows hasn’t been fun since Windows 7. The OS already has most drivers and automatically downloads everything else, I miss skimming through pages of drivers to find the correct one.
You’re telling me that making a Microsoft account isn’t fun? It’s truly a process I look forward to. Cortana is literally the friendliest AI
waifuassistant I could ever ask for, how can I say no when she asks me to give up my privacy?Creating a Microsoft account is as easy as “next next done”, where’s the fun in that?.
Cortana was great on Windows Phone (mostly because I love Jen Taylor’s voice), but they kept taking away features and was basically useless on the desktop which, imho, has no use for an assistant.
Been there, started scripting with PowerShell to have an after-setup-script to change reg entries, install tools (mostly through choco), run them (like dism++ cleanup and o&o shutup10 privacy tweaks) and migrate data from backups. Setting up and migrating took me usually 3-4h of work, sometimes more. With the scripts it’s just: Install Windows, update, reboot, update, reboot, run the script, reboot. Done. It’s like 30min of work.
Good thing I changed to linux, cause you can automate the whole process and preseed it into a debian image or kickstart rpm-based distros. It’s possible to do customized Windows images too. I have tried a lot of times. It never worked like it was supposed to.
Sounds like PEBKAC.
OSTree users: I have no such weaknesses
Reinstalling every 6 months to feel like new was Windows 95, 98, XP, etc
Now they do it for you and you have no choice
I reinstall on an estimated average of about monthly, distro hopping skewed that, it so should be around a bit less than bimonthly.
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Remember the windows XP & HDD days when you would reinstall windows every new year so it ran smoother xd
stares at Debian Bookworm VPS that’s been upgraded in-place and hasn’t been reformatted since Debian Etch (2007)
How I understand that.
For this particular VPS, I’ve moved provider several times, but every time I just use Clonezilla to clone the disk over the internet. Maybe I should do a fresh reinstall one day. There’s just so much random stuff running on it though.
I thought I was alone
