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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

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      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.

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        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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    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)

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      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.

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    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.

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      Opensuse TW cured my distrohopping more than 1 year ago.

      Nix is the only distro that’s tempting me…

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        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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    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

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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!”

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    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

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    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.

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    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.