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So, timeshift or NixOS? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For me it's installing a new OS every six months for a fun new experience.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a USB drive bay. Just swap disks to play around with other distros. It's pretty neat too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well now I feel silly for not thinking about doing that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It actually works quite well. Seperate home partition and off you go 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that clutter your home partition since every distro you install has some things to put on there?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

mv .config .config.old235 :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm distro shopping right now, so I made a large "home" partition, and several smaller OS partitions (GPT FTW!). If I want things to "sync" (Docs, Downloads, .mozilla, .bashrc) I delete the /home/user/Music and symlink it to my /mnt/sharehome/Music .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's what I figured you'd do. Thank you for your wisdom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Me too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I installed ubuntu on my workstation in 2013 and have upgraded the OS since. I've swapped out the motherboard and added 5 drives in raid6. The thing morphed from a desktop into a server over the years. The only original HW is the case (power supply died a few years ago). I never really concidered wiping & installing a new OS.