• GhostsAreShitty@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Right? Decades of Linux use, been a Linux admin for half of it. Still reinstall when I’m not happy with the way things are going. It’s just faster.

      • animist@lemmy.one
        01·
        1 year ago

        Yeah fedora screwed up TODAY so I’m just reinstalling

        And running into issues encrypting my swap so wishing I had just tried to solve the problem :p

  • candle_lighter@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    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

  • MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    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.

  • Dandroid@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year 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.

  • Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    You give that up that strategy and lean into fixing shit when you put the time in to customize the OS and desktop/window manager experience… at that point you should understand your system well enough to make fixing it easier, and you are also afraid of having to redo some of your customization. That being said, you still should make regular system backups, especially if you are tinkering with the OS experience a lot.

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not about being afraid.

        Customizing takes time and effort, which I’d rather use like.

        Doing stuff?

        Unless I want to re-customize it to be something else, I’d rather not re-make my entire set-up. I figured out what the relevant files were to how my whole set-up (DE look & behaviour, dotfiles for like fish and nvim) and copied it all to a USB Drive that I just drop onto my home folder whenever I install my OS on a new computer.