Whaddya talking about I nuke my shit all the time.
Why learn nixOS, if not to reinstall every morning?
Me too 😁 I have no important file not saved in cloud ever. I can nuke any of my clients without any afterthought
This saves so much time…
The whole point of doing a separate partition for your home directory is to do just that… The fuck is this even supposed to mean.
Uh… I don’t have a separate partition for /home. I have a separate zfs filesystem for it though. If I run into issues, I can restore from snapshot and not affect it.
Same, but BTRFS
That’s fair. I chose ZFS because I’ve used it before. And understand it fairly well already. I know nothing about BTRFS, so perhaps you could educate me a little. I’m working on setting up a cloudstack host using ZFS RAID 10. Does BTRFS have a flexible architecture to where you could do something similar?
Edit: Perhaps you could also inform me of the speeds of BTRFS too. From what I understand, ZFS outperforms BTRFS in large datasets, but I don’t know where the cutoff is. I’ll let you know it would need to run 12 ea 10TB HDDs.
Best would be to search up BTRFS vs ZFS, or listen the the entire back catalog of 2.5admins; they regularly discuss both. ZFS is probably what you want, I only went BTRFS because it is what I got introduced to via OpenSUSE
I treat all my data as ephemeral, no need for separate home partition.
If you got a problem, reinstall and do the same stuff again, you’ll almost certainly get the same problem again. So, no, it’s only productive if you are in a fucked-up environment where changes bring more breakage than they fix.
It’s useful if you don’t plan to do the same thing again, though. So if you are just trying random stuff, yeah, go ahead.
I reinstall at the drop of a hat. Pretty much any excuse to try another distro or configuration I was uncertain about.
One of the things I noticed when I first switched, was the difference of advice on forums. Linux users would ask for reports and pinpoint errors giving a fix. Windows forums would be wild random often unrelated guesses ultimately leading to “just reformat”.
If the issue doesn’t resolve itself, reinstall, that works for me as a catch all solution because I use Linux like a Chromebook, web browsing.
As someone I’d still consider a noob, I did this less than a month after getting a new laptop last January. I probably broke something trying to get the headphone jack working on it and then Bluetooth stopped working properly as well after installing Steam, so I started over. All I know for certain is I ended up destroying a folder I shouldn’t have on accident, which bricked the system pretty much and made nothing launchable, terminal included. This was on MX and haven’t had issues since reinstalling.
I just rollback my snapper.
My brother reinstalled his windows more often than I ran “zypper dup”
Ehhh all my important files are sync’d to my NAS. I have a script that just apt installs everything I normally use. Sometimes it’s just faster than troubleshooting. Usually if I’m about to do something whacky I clone my disk and use the clone. If it works it’s my new primary, if it doesn’t nothing lost.
I literally had an official support person tell me to reinstall Ubuntu to get a specific app running.
