I'm convinced that majority of people using timeshift couldn't recover from their system failing to boot or a drive failure.
And if you could tell me how because I got no idea how to either.
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You can just boot a Linux Mint live session and restore from there.
why mint in particular lol
It has Timeshift preinstalled, because Timeshift is maintained by the Linux Mint team. You can use any live session and install Timeshift, though.
How do you mismanage your system so bad that you need these things?
Mint users with no zfs, no per block checksumming, no syncoid, no ability to boot into prior version or revert right in the boot loader...
Arch noobs after destroying their system every month be like:
Wait. Are you saying you can choose not to rawdog your os ?
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)
Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.
I don't remove orphan packages, I don't setuo snapshots, I don't read arch news.
I sudo pacman -Syu. And if I can't boot I don't do it
It's been a while but for me personally, the number one thing that saves your ass in event of failure is installing both the up to date and the LTS kernel. If you fail to boot, it's gonna have something to do with a kernel update 90% of the time, in which case you just boot with the LTS kernel. Just about anything else can be fixed either while you're up and running, or with a live distro installed on a USB.
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.
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.
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Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.
By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.
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Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.
Iβm here for a good time, not a long time
Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me
They call it disk destroyer for a reason. You gotta alias that shit.
alias dd='echo Did you triple check which device you picked? Of course not, dipshit. Check again'
Did you triple check which device you picked?
I checked five times, actually. And then I check some more.
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Why would you want your entire home folder in syncthing?
I'm very attached to my ~/.cache !
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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―
Ah yes, the shotgun approach to data integrity
there are two types of computer users
- those who make backup
- those who never had a hard disk crash
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i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?
Straight to jail.
You missed the space between one and drive⦠and you accidentally capitalized a couple letters.
Donβt correct me on this one. Please.
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This is me with endeavourOS lmao. Anything important is on my mega/Codeberg. If it dies it dies
I'm in this picture... My build had been stable for a year and I only once had my PC booting in safe mode
if it breaks, just fix it
I ran linux with ext2, no timeshift, and home on the root partition. Back then when I ran the machine on kernel 0.97.
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.
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I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.
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Dotfiles in git my dude.
Edit: or even better chezmoi with dotfiles and ansible bootstrapping
Nah. We just know how to boot a broken system and fix it.
Separate /home is such a scam. Never have I run out of home space, but boy is 27GB not enough for a root partition that runs any kind of service.
I only do it on my ancient laptop because for some reason, it makes things a little faster. I don't know why.
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