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I am not using Mint, but for whatever reason I installed TimeShift.

I recently tried a new Alpha upgrade of my distro because I thought it would be cool to check out. Also, when I ran the command, I expected it to be like "Are you sure you want to do this ||shit||?" and instead it just full-on started upgrading to the new alpha version of the distro.

After 30 minutes of waiting and the upgrade being 40 percent done, I thought, "Well, it's not going to be that bad. I'll just ||go to the strip club||, come back, and I'm sure it will work fine."

Lo and behold, I come back ||from the strip club|| and NOTHING WORKS. My VPN doesn't load anymore, parts of the screen are unusable, the new interface is strange, things I use daily are just not running at all. I try to install these things using the command line and can't. I try updating but apparently apt is already doing something, which makes no sense.

||FUCK||, I thought to myself. I opened TimeShift thinking "there's no way this will ||fucking|| work, I'm going to lose this entire weekend dealing with the aftermath of this ||shit||."

I use TimeShift and about 6 minutes later, everything is fine. It's exactly the same as before, it works perfectly. It's like I never ran that awful command at all.

I just wanted to give a thanks to the developers who made TimeShift. What a great program!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Fun fact: after this post, I was finally messaged by Nicole. Time to go get butchered! ;-)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought we were talking about the critically underrated 2007 game and I was like "Yo finally another fan!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Yeah same! Thought what's Mint got to do with... Ah right, the Linux Sub

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Have you met atomic distros? You can go back and forth in time and space

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

And spend a week figuring out permissions to install a GTK theme.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!

No, but seriously, I occasionally miss being able to just install shit. But 95% of the time, there's a Flatpak and it's great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

legit, the catalyst for me changing to Linux a year ago was reading about btrfs and timeshift. I'd tried Linux a few times before over the years, including dual booting; and I could kind of deal with having to restart into windows periodically to do specific things; but inevitably something would happen that would require me to move heaven and earth to unfuck. But timeshift (and proton) has largely eliminated any grievance I've ever had with Linux. It just works, and when something (rarely) doesn't, unfucking it is easier than ever.