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    [–] emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] dmrzl@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If you are afraid of redoing your customizations you are using the wrong distro.

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] dmrzl@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Yes, but recreation of any customization takes minutes if you use the correct distribution.

    For example my root and home are on a tmpfs and therefore get deleted on every boot. Recreating every file in my system is done every boot, so reinstalling == booting (pretty much, partitioning is still manual).

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    (why do you do that, though?)

    [–] dmrzl@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

    When you regularly create and destroy a few dozen servers you care about reproducibility of installations and configurations. But even when you only have your home pc your drive can die at any point and you don't want to figure out again how to fix that weird bug you once had or realize that you missed your docker images in your backup regimen.

    If you nuke my pc from orbit I have it set up again in 10mins. Exactly. Every single file.

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

    Comprehensible and respectable, even if it is on a level I cannot even think of reaching.