edit: for anyone curious, the problem was Xorg wasnt loading or something (stuck on systemd ‘graphical interface target reached’ with no graphical interface). because of a typo in a config file.
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I did that as a beginner a few times but now I’m able to resolve everything I need to with the good old terminal.
sometimes i just cant be bothered figuring out why systemd isnt starting a graphical interface, or whatever, and reinstalling doesnt take very long if you have a home partition
Cannot relate to that. I modify the crap out of my Arch install and keep it in perfect condition all the time.
7 years strong here with only 1 reinstall to switch to 64 bit
2 reinstalls now* I had to upgrade my NVME drive and the old one shit the bed while I was moving data, so everything on this system is fresh now… At least I keep the important stuff backed up in git haha
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my current install is 3 yrs old, if you select a decent distro and dont fuck with its internals it works pretty well.
i suspect most of the people complaining are either on a meme distro or they poke too much into the system
You seem to implying that doing anything other than using preinstalled apps like the web browser is “poking too much into the system” and are therefore idiots. As I have had a system break just by installing or upgrading packages on Ubuntu. Now I always use ZFS on root and make snapshots of everything beforehand.
Goddammit I’m literally right now trying to decide if I want to spend an entire day wiping and reinstalling the OS in my main PC or if I can live with the current glitches for now. Full disclosure, in my case the glitchy behaviour is entirely on me trying to tinker with the OS and accidentally breaking stuff, not an issue with Linux or the distro.
Without hesitation I will always recommend reinstalling the os I have it down to a fucking science haha
I reinstall on every boot…
Just see your systems as cattle, not pets. That way you can do this. Usually done through infrastructure as code like Ansible. NixOs is perfect for this use case
I reinstall every hour via cronjob
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Reinstalling is the Windows way of solving problems.
