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    In my earlier days of running Linux (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 years ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] Seahelicopter6302@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

    I use timeshift and it has saved my ass quite a few times!

    [–] kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] Dandroid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] morain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    Oh, for the days of constant distro-hopping ...

    [–] Scridgeon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] Electronium@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    I don't have many spare devices to do backups so I started using Fedora Kionite. I highly recommend installing ublue if anyone uses Silverblue/Kionite.

    [–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    That’s how the pros do it.

    [–] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

    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

    [–] Pe4rl@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    Reminds me, that I want to "fix" my install.

    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    Reinstalling is Windows (and sometimes macOS) logic. On Linux just fix whatever it is and move on.

    [–] namelivia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    This was me back in the days when breaking anything xorg related

    [–] BlueDepth9279@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    This is still the way! Gives me an excuse to change my distro.

    [–] Foliik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    This is the way

    [–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

    [–] camasii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    This is precisely the hampster wheel that felt like it led me to osx.

    [–] Marxine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

    [–] p_consti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    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

    [–] ls64@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    earlier days? this was me last week after failing miserably to install poetry 4 times in a row and destroying my python environment.

    [–] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

    Me rn frfr

    [–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

    me whose samsung laptop will only reliably boot with kubuntu:
    :(

    [–] MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

    [–] donut4ever@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

    I normally troubleshoot for an hour or so. After that, I'm reinstalling. Fuck this shit 😂

    [–] atretador@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    Wait isn't this the standard? Debugging can take hours, but it takes like 5min to reinstall

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