How do you mismanage your system so bad that you need these things?
I’m convinced that majority of people using timeshift couldn’t recover from their system failing to boot or a drive failure.
And if you could tell me how because I got no idea how to either.
You can just boot a Linux Mint live session and restore from there.
why mint in particular lol
It has Timeshift preinstalled, because Timeshift is maintained by the Linux Mint team. You can use any live session and install Timeshift, though.
Mint users with no zfs, no per block checksumming, no syncoid, no ability to boot into prior version or revert right in the boot loader…
Arch noobs after destroying their system every month be like:
Wait. Are you saying you can choose not to rawdog your os ?
I’m in this picture… My build had been stable for a year and I only once had my PC booting in safe mode
Even ext4 still has safety measures (BLOAT!11!!1) because of journaling.
This is why i compile my kernels on ext2 with without swap for maximum utilization /j
How do you know about me.
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!
I, too, am familiar with the art of grub rescue env!
I have seen its darkest depths.
And oh how deep they doth go!
(I use arch btw)
Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.
I ran linux with ext2, no timeshift, and home on the root partition. Back then when I ran the machine on kernel 0.97.
I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem
Same here, not sure what they on about.
I third this
I’m stupid and I didn’t know there was other ways of living
Non-issue. I just scatter fragments of my data across so many devices that some version of something is bound to be somewhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don’t think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn’t responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I’m running.
If you don’t count my 6 years with Manjarno, I’ve used Arch for ~7 years and only 3 times I had to fix something, 2 times because of Nvidia, once my fault. I had way more problems with Ubuntu in the past than Arch by the way. :)
There’s the argument to be made that all three were your fault, since you decided to use nvidia on Linux.
Hyuk hyuk hyuk.
Well, I also used ATI in the past but it was way worse. :)
This is still true but I find you are using bcachefs where every update is a death threat.
Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.
I don’t remove orphan packages, I don’t setuo snapshots, I don’t read arch news.
I
sudo pacman -Syu. And if I can’t boot I don’t do itIt’s been a while but for me personally, the number one thing that saves your ass in event of failure is installing both the up to date and the LTS kernel. If you fail to boot, it’s gonna have something to do with a kernel update 90% of the time, in which case you just boot with the LTS kernel. Just about anything else can be fixed either while you’re up and running, or with a live distro installed on a USB.
