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Switching my computer from Windows to Linux is one of the best decisions I have ever made🔥👌

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been running Mint since 17.x and have only had one upgrade fail in all that time. You're very unlikely to have a problem, but backup your system just in case!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

Or use something like TimeShift and set it to automatically create backups.

Before I switched to the boringly stable Bazzite, TimeShift was a godsend. I was able to learn so much about Linux just by not having to worry about fucking up my install because whenever I did, it was trivial to rollback.

[–] Linearity@infosec.pub 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
And that happened in the span of one month too.

Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Hooray for ~~boobies~~ BTRFS!

ooh i have timeshift automatically set up anyway :)