From the shoemaker's children go barefoot file...
On Sunday I didn't have any plans and was going to nerd out working on a personal dev project.
I'd suffered with a partially broken efi and initramfs on my primary Linux desktop because I didn't want to risk reinstalling and dealing with locally built kmods, packages, and customization. It's been this way for a few months, accumulating over years, and I kept putting off a base OS reinstall. I have other, slower, machines but it's convenient to work directly on the daily driver...
I localize stuff on a ZFS pool with stow and guix. I take nightly backups of that and my homedir anyway. All my dev environments and tools live there, mostly... some stuff ended up in /opt which wasn't backed up.
So of course I managed to accidentally crash the system and couldn't recover. My Sunday was now planned for me: a fresh
#opensuse #slowroll install.
Pros: Fully up to date. System performance feels quite snappy. New KDE plasma seems nice. Jack/Pipewire works properly again. Successful test of my backups.
Cons: Didn't have years of shell history (
#atuin) or some configs (a broken switch to XDG_* paths from who knows how long...) on ZFS. Discovering an error at a time what I didn't localize and need to reinstall.
Abie
Ryan
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