BTW, nixos allows you to easily roll back to a previous generation on boot in case an update breaks something.
Just sayin' 😁
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So does Fedora Silverblue for the record.
It is a damn impressive feature to realize you just broke your install and are able to say “no problem”.
Si does tumbleweed, two-clicks rollback from the GRUB menu
Silverblue gang!
Woohoo
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Friendly reminder: just don't buy nvidia
Many already have nvidia before they start with linux. I'm still on my 1060 from 2018.
Another problem is that most manufacturers of laptops directed at the Linux crowd, for some reason I will never understand, insist on punching Nvidia hardware instead of AMD/ATI. How does that help?
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Unfortunately for those of us that use Cuda features, AMD just really isn't that viable of an alternative. Anyone who's had to deal with ROCM can attest to this...
As soon as AMD is competitive in price/performance in my region. I won't give them money just becauae they have open source drivers.
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When u realize you dont even use a backup software rn
Remember to check your three "B"s; your balls, your breasts and your backups.
I'm using this from now on
Or you opt for an operating system that lers you roll-back whole generations for when such a thing happens (GNU Guix for the win!)
Timeshift with BTRFS kicks ass. I have mine set for daily snapshots, retained for a week. Only the changes between snapshots are stored, so the extra disk usage is minimal, and easily justified by the peace of mind in case of fuck-ups or broken updates.
Just make sure you back up your stuff to a second disk❤️
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Linux noobie here. Any tips on what to search for for instructions on how to do this? Bonus points if it has a GUI and is easy to use.
Timeshift. It has an easy to understand GUI that doesn't really need much of an intro: You create snapshots of your system files and configs that can be restored if/when you bungle it up.
Thanks, all setup!
Timeshift works best if you use BTRFS for your root partition because snapshots can be taken instantly. I have mine setup to automatically take a snapshot every day.
Never used it myself and i am still a linix noob but what is the restore process if your OS isnt bootable?
If their like a rescue environment you boot into or something?
There are many approaches, depending on what broke. In my case the system was fine, just xorg being completely borked. So I logged into the console and fixed it.
If regular console doesn't work, something really went bad during boot, for which there's single-user mode which is kind of similar to safe mode from Windows 98 (I'm sure there's something similar in newer windows versions).
And of that doesn't work, there's the minimalistic rescue shell.
And if that doesn't work, you can boot from a USB or some other external media and try to fix your system from that, maybe even using chroot to use the system somewhat normally.
As long as your file system is on BTRFS, timeshift is, I O, the easiest backup app for Linux, specially if you're just getting your feet wet in it.
Why does Timeshift only support btrfs? Is it just a lack of developers? LVM supports snapshots too, even if you're just using ext4. ZFS supports snapshots too.
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Is it dumb that I only backup my docs and anything else I think is important? I can rebuild fairly quickly if something would happen. I ask since I know that people backup a variety of their directories
If you're comfortable, you're fine. Anything more would just be to speed up the rebuild, so it's less important if you don't mind taking the time.
I will never install a Linux desktop without a snapshotting root filesystem ever again. Nvidia driver updates, /boot getting too full during kernel or driver updates, a bad update of pipewire half a year ago, and more I can't remember. Was always able to boot to previous snapshot of the OS, and address whatever it was. Some ZFS here, some BTRFS there... and my small fleet of Linux desktops are as easy to recover as any immutable OS. Better even, because snapshots allow me to pull individual items or things between states easily, too.
Neat little guide (Arch, systemd) to set up automatic snapshots when you run a pacman/yay update and the option to chose snapshots in grub during startup. Really useful.
The nvidia 545 drivers are an absolute dumpster fire. Even for beta drivers they are easily the worst drivers I've ever used. They claim to fix the vrr gsync bug tho... so as soon as they fix gestures broadly everything else, maybe they'll be good
Definitely. I use Timeshift on Linux Mint Debian Edition and set it to take weekly snapshots. Saved my bacon about 2 weeks ago when a kernel update borked my system.
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