I feel this. I used to do it all the time when I first got into Linux. Immutable distros will make this a non-issue.
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Iβm 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 Iβve done over time to this build and knew that if I needed to reinstall Iβd 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
I use timeshift and it has saved my ass quite a few times!
With the exception of my home data, this is why I switched to Fedora Silverblue. I got past the experimental phase and just wanted a linux that would work without thoughts
Literally this morning I started getting boot errors. It is telling me WBM can't find the boot file. But I should be booting into grub, so idk what to do. My boot order is Ubuntu, then USB. And that's it. And now I'm out of the house all day and can't do anything but sweat about it.
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Oh, for the days of constant distro-hopping ...
can't say I've ever done this. better to figure out why it's broken and fix it so that the next time I encounter that kinda problem, I can fix it quickly.
Thatβs how the pros do it.
This is precisely the hampster wheel that felt like it led me to osx.
Considering I'd rather not spend the weekend troubleshooting stuff when I have my house to clean before returning to work on Monday, and a simple backup > reinstall will take me less than 6h at most (counting all customization and etc), I'll take a full reinstall any time.
Edit: Oh, now I reread that's about the early days. Would do the same though.
Hey, at least we have the option to fix things. My poor Windows friends end up reinstalling multiple times a year due to unfixable issues and bugs.
Have a friend who still does this. Every so often he'll notice that something is missing from a previous reinstall and we have to take a second to bring his system back on track
Reinstalling is Windows (and sometimes macOS) logic. On Linux just fix whatever it is and move on.
This is the way
This was me back in the days when breaking anything xorg related
earlier days? this was me last week after failing miserably to install poetry 4 times in a row and destroying my python environment.
If you just want to get shit done sure just reinstall and you are good to go, but I see these issues as a learning opportunity and I have tons of free time so I try and fix my system for hours on end. Also it rarely breaks so not much time is wasted.
me whose samsung laptop will only reliably boot with kubuntu:
:(
Broke my ZorinOS install by trying to upgrade parts of the OS by myself so I could run newer software and lived like that for months until I gave up and switched to Fedora
Me rn frfr
Reminds me, that I want to "fix" my install.
This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.