to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.
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Arch has never "broken" on me through my 3 years of using it, but after a while weird issues would start to appear. Like for example my login manager just stopped working permanently and I had to do startplasma-wayland. Ssh agents also subtly broke. Stuff like that. I forgot to enable fstrim and my system freaked out during I/O eventually. These are all technically user error, but I don't feel like spending so much time on managing my operating system.
I ended up switching to Fedora and was pleasantly surprised how well it's setup by default.
idk Arch's timeline, but back in Janurary CachyOS changed from using SDDM to Plasma Login Manager and their news release had some manual commands to enter in to migrate more smoothly.
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what's a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in
never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about
I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?
Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.
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I check all these boxes. This install is ancient now. I moved the disk into a new PC (Intel/nvidia to amd/amd) and it didn't even stutter.
I had issues in the past, sure, but nothing really severe. Archlinux.org frontpage has information on breaking updates if need be.
Timeshift? BTRFS Snapper layout!
I'm rawdogging my Debian Unstable install
A separate partition for /home/
Why havenβt I thought of this before??
you can use it to (sometimes) transplant your personal config and documents onto another OS, but it comes with the tradeoff of losing space in root that might be used for massive libraries (compute libraries suck in this regard).
And sometimes your /home will depend on things that your rootfs doesn't have, which has caused problems for me before. But if you planned for these things beforehand, and your installed software doesn't do something really dumb, it can work out pretty well, although my personal experience with this is limited to effectively embedded Linux where this is usually a non-issue.
my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...
what are yall doing to brick your machines?
Right? The OP describes me (except I like to think I'm not that sweaty) and I don't remember ever having reinstalled because things were broken.
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Me with arch: what is timeshift? Time to updstr without backup, lol!
the one thing i wish i knew when i first installed linux was to put /home on another drive (i do symlink downloads and anything else now but i wish i did it on my desktop when i first switched)
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meh, just backup home.
I will simply reinstall and forsake my files if it shits the bed catastrophically
*BTRFS users when you don't rebalance soon enough and run out of inodes so you can't boot your computer
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Eh, I've had worse. I'd actually like it if it included FDE (my spare Artix laptop has this config, while my main is stuck with home encryption (on seperate partition)and Suse TW, which is kinda chaotic. I complained about openrc being a pain to daily, but Artix actually makes it good and feels actually stable.
You can backup via a live enviroment anyway.
dies
"Welp, time to distrohop."
I made a /home partition on eOS at least! But given that the drive is only 128G, I don't store much in it that isn't synced from desktop.