Lucky me most of the important stuff are things I have on another computer, or can redownload from email or whatever service that needed it.
But my new passwords.... oh well. Recovery is typically easy.
What sucks is losing things you did not know you would need or miss until much later.
DEs get so wonky if you try to change them. I wish it was easier to compartmentalize an envirionment.
Hah. That was my strategy, but manually.
I need to learn backup tools proper.
Of course, it happens when your data is at its most valuable.
Yes. I think I am closer to data paranoia... I need a system.
That sounds nice. Not having a system that becomes terminally broken after a bad decision.
You are right. I was happy with linux mint, and before that MX Linux. This is all just bike shedding. I spend a lot of time setting things up Hell, I spend too much time just downloading crap because I have not bothered to make a script that would automate installation of the apps I use.
Yeah, I think I will.
Ah. I was in theater tech. No shame to find anywhere.
I would be mortified. He seems shameless though, hah.
Neat. I will try that once photorec finishes its search in like a month from now.
I feel like I have done that too, but long time ago. I always got confused with dual booting. I get weird trying to calculate how much to space to give each partition.
Making partitions by hand is a pain though.
What is kind of funny is that my computer has the SSD for system and home, and I only ever used the storage to copy over files from my home. I also have a little 1TB SSD That I could have used as an offline backup... but didn't do that. I had the tools, just never thought to do it. I will look into a NAS, that would be nifty. Can't bork that with a new install.
I will! These programs are amazing.
Oh, I am on Fedora Silverblue with Gnome. If it is easy to switch, I think I will give KDE a try!
I like Gnome, and I definitely need to tweak some behavior I find annoying, but I feel I never gave KDE a proper chance because I seem to mess up the panel whenever I look at it wrong, and have no idea how to get back to default.