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This is my setup that I have been using for years. I have never had a serious Linux update issue that could not be fixed.
Well la dee da look at this guy who knows how to fix linux!
Yeehaw!
Exactly. Nothing of importance is stored solely there anyway.
And for me I need every single GB for installing games, no space left for backup management.
I run a live real time dist straight into ram. I communicate with Linux telepathically.
Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.
Non-issue. I just scatter fragments of my data across so many devices that some version of something is bound to be somewhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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)
Are you meaning on a different partition or a completely different hard drive?
well my desktop has the main ssd where i installed it too but that is pretty small while the second drive is something like 2tb so that’s where i would have put it. its honestly not bad now i had a brief panic where it ran out but ive symlinked a lot in /home over to the new place its just wish i understood the advanced partitioning when i first set it up that’s all.
Not too difficult to fix this in post.
- Turn off, boot from a USB
- Copy all home to drive
- Delete home from old drive
- Add fstab entry
- ???
- Lose all data (but usually profit)
You say it’s not too difficult, but, I guarantee you, if I tried to do this, I’d lose not only my /home, but also my game drive. I’m that kind of dumb.
This is me with endeavourOS lmao. Anything important is on my mega/Codeberg. If it dies it dies
Timeshift? BTRFS Snapper layout!
if it breaks, just fix it
A separate partition for /home/
Why haven’t I thought of this before??
Nah. We just know how to boot a broken system and fix it.
I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem
I’m stupid and I didn’t know there was other ways of living
Same here, not sure what they on about.
I third this
Dotfiles in git my dude
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 enablefstrimand 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.
every login manager was broken, it’d just crash after I put in my password. It was the final straw
Honestly agree, it’s always the little issues that are problems.
dies
“Welp, time to distrohop.”
