You are expected to know this

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/Astrodion123]

I am doing it like that. Nothing has broke so far >:)

[u/NanuLanu → u/Astrodion123]

Been doing ts for 6 years and when an update breaks something, just chroot and fix it. (Aura!)

[u/Tear4Pixelation → u/NanuLanu]

I hope you mean archlinux-chroot or otherwise that’s minus aura… have had to rebuild my boot loader after auto suspend killed during nvidia driver install from chroot way too often

[u/Thisismyredusername → u/Tear4Pixelation]

I could've sworn it's arch-chroot, not archlinux-chroot ...

[u/gtsiam → u/Thisismyredusername]

You could've sworn correctly.

[u/Tuqui77 → u/Thisismyredusername]

Almost a year in and no problems

[u/Tear4Pixelation → u/Thisismyredusername]

Fuuuuuck you are right 😔 I could have sworn the other way around but ig I fkin suck

[u/Rek9876boss → u/Thisismyredusername]

They missed an opportunity to make it archroot

[u/Wertbon1789 → u/Tear4Pixelation]

arch-chroot is just a chroot with extra steps. Setting up some bind mounts, so you can use the system somewhat correctly. You could just do those yourself.

[u/kansetsupanikku → u/Tear4Pixelation]

When I care to remember it exists, sure. But just using my decades old habits and seeing they are still relevant does not make me feel like my aura is fading anytime soon

[u/Seven2Death → u/NanuLanu]

i just "dual boot" and sym link everything i use in my experience with arch based distros its the de facto way to do things. if your grub menu doesnt have like 6 broken des your doing things wrong. i joke but it really is a lazy easy fix that makes actually fixing any problems i have..... difficult

[u/KawaiiMaxine → u/Seven2Death]

How do you have desktop environments on grub?

[u/MousyCheeseBits → u/NanuLanu]

Doing this nonsense since 2022 but I update like it's a new Ubuntu release cycle. Never chrooted, Don't ask me to "chroot" because I won't know how to begin.

[u/Wertbon1789 → u/MousyCheeseBits]

chroot == change root

Basically, you can just spawn processes which believe that the directory you gave to the chroot call is the actual root directory, which means it can not get out of the context of that directory by default. It's useful for system setup without being booted from that system, e.g. enabling system services or installing packages.

[u/Sharp_Application521 → u/NanuLanu]

I always get like minor inconveniences like KDE crashing my pc when I load into it, but I'm too lazy to maintain my arch installation so I just switched to gnome, which then broke Firefox and about every steam game I played on it so I had to reinstall those and switch to cosmic, I'm running out of DEs at this rate

[u/kubaplas → u/Astrodion123]

So far

https://giphy.com/gifs/GWD5nSpiHxs3K

[u/glassgost → u/Astrodion123]

I keep everything I can't lose on my nas anyway. If I mess something up bad enough, I just slash and burn and start over.

[u/tenkawa7 → u/Astrodion123]

Been doing that way for over 20 years, yet to be a problem

[u/Sh_Pe → u/Astrodion123]

same here. I'm also dual booting with Windows for some extra spice (I love it risky)

[u/RiceStranger9000 → u/Sh_Pe]

Put a heater next to your HDD and a faulty electricity source. Now that's risky

[u/Sh_Pe → u/RiceStranger9000]

living on the edge

[u/Particular_Wear_6960 → u/Astrodion123]

I'm running Cachy like this and never have any issues. I admit I'm on an all AMD system so that may help but I've got an Nvidia/intell machine as will running Cachy that doesn't have any issues though I update less often

[u/Astrodion123 → u/Particular_Wear_6960]

I have two machines that are all Intel. They work flawlessly 💀

[u/Zican]

arch is the comfiest distro imo, if ever something breaks there is so much info you can solve it. Also just read the archlinux page for breaking changes and you shouldn't ever have problems from just updating

[u/balancedchaos → u/Zican]

If you keep it simple, you'll be fine. I prefer simple and clean, so I'm happy. 

[u/w3rt → u/Zican]

Majority of problems people get are nvidia driver related, which won’t show up on the news page

[u/Zican → u/w3rt]

that's not arch related tho? it happens on all distro and even then that was maybe 10 years ago, i have an nvidia card and i just read the nvidia archwiki page to solve the screen tearing once when i installed my arch distro and that's it.

[u/PlainBread]

My system is ext4 but I do part out /home/ with btrfs...

[u/naturalbornsinner → u/PlainBread]

Using Linux without the nitty gritty knowledge... What does this mean? And why is it (or isn't it?) good practice?

I imagine the meme implies data loss/no rollback mechanism. But what should a user do for "less headaches" if they just started using Linux recently?

[u/PlainBread → u/naturalbornsinner]

The advantage for me is that I can unmount /home/ and then completely rewipe my system to a different flavor of Linux, and then reconnect /home/ to the new distro and have all my dot files in place and everything just works the way it did before but on a different distro.

As for btrfs, it includes some error recovery functionality that ext4 doesn't, so if you ever have some file corruption happen, it's more likely that btrfs will be able to recover the corrupted data. Part of the in-joke of OP's meme is that if everything is on a single ext4 partition, then if filesystem corruption happens there, you're screwed all over.

[u/duskterrapin → u/PlainBread]

I backup /home to an external drive, but this is cool. I may do both

[u/Zomunieo → u/duskterrapin]

Directly moving /home to a new system isn’t always a good idea. Configuration file formats change over time and you can get some weirdness.

[u/Mr_ityu → u/Zomunieo]

haha i know this from experience ! back in 2017-8 i tried merging my polyboot fedora, debian and arch installs to the same separated home partition . it worked....partially .

[u/gosand → u/Zomunieo]

I did a fresh install in 2018, and have been dist-upgrading since (devuan xfce). I don't get any weirdness. Not exactly moving it to a new system, but pretty close. I am on a stable release, and do back up (rsync) my home drive to a separate disk on my system nightly.

I have cachyos on a laptop, and am really liking it. I am considering running it on my daily driver, but I rely on it a lot so am hesitant. I started on Linux in 1998, so I remember the days of fucking up your entire system and don't want to return there.

[u/duskterrapin → u/Zomunieo]

yeah I kinda assume any new system requires some tweaking, especially in /home

[u/PlainBread → u/Zomunieo]

Just gotta move all your dotfile directories into "olddotfiles" and then grab what you need from them when you need something from them. When enough time has passed you can delete the folder.

[u/diacid → u/duskterrapin]

Home needs backup. The precious shit is there.

The rest the internet is your backup, even if the drive fails just download another iso

[u/MiniGui98 → u/diacid]

This is wiseness here ^

Personnal documents cannot be replaced. Sofrware you downloaded can most of the time.

And if you don't have any Internet anymore and can't download a new iso you probably have other things to worry about first lol

[u/Spatula0fDoom → u/PlainBread]

There is no need in separate /home to reinstall. Just delete all directories except for home and install as usual. Then you just link new user to your old /home and you are good to go. It’s Linux, baby

[u/PlainBread → u/Spatula0fDoom]

Okay, second reason:

When my root partition starts filling up, I actually notice it. I have 100GB partitioned out, my system right now is using about 50% of that. When it starts creeping towards 100% I know I have a runaway tmp directory or log file somewhere.

[u/MajesticDisaster3977 → u/PlainBread]

That's why you run separate partitions for tmp and|or var, or a subvolume with a quota.

[u/Porkhole-Santookus → u/PlainBread]

This has always seemed like a cool idea to me, but I've never implemented it myself. How do you deal with the .config, cache, and other local data left behind by packages that may not be on the next distro? Is this something you even bother managing?

[u/PlainBread → u/Porkhole-Santookus]

It's just like dealing with AppData when migrating Windows. You can let it pile up for a while and then lose it all at once for a fresh start. Or go in with ncdu and trim by size.

I mainly use flatpaks so most of my stuff is in ~/.var/app/

[u/PreparationStrict492 → u/naturalbornsinner]

Regarding the separate home partition: Conceptually, in the linux (unix) file system model, the user's entire data lives within the home partition. Everything else is publicly available, interchangeable, and replaceable.

The thinking originates in shared computers in the universities of 70s. Many users with access to their own home directories, and they all share the same system outside of that.

That means, as long as you retain your data (home folder) you can rebuild the entire system around it (same system, or migrate to any other compliant one) and go on without a hitch. That is, essentially, data loss matters only within home directories.

---

btrfs is, due to its technical details, is very efficient for retaining past snapshots, and when needed reverting to them. I don't think this is as much of an issue with the home directory of a personal computer (aside from accidental deletions), for hardware failures are the real threat there (and if your drive fails catastrophically, snapshots won't help you), so backups (on different media, and if you are serious about it, also on different sorts of media) are a better bet.

I think, for home computers, having system snapshots to revert to helps a lot for fast recovery from borked updates in rolling release distros (that is, having everything outside home on btrfs), particularly on the more unstable ones (*cough* arch *cough*).

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/naturalbornsinner]

Search for a guide, use btrfs, set up rollbacks, activate timeshift, have your home partition separate from your root partition. Or use an immutable distro that comes with this already set up.

[u/Rikmastering → u/claudiocorona93]

A guide on what exactly? I'm also a linux user and I've never seen half of this words

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/Rikmastering]

I had to search for methods to harden my setup after years of breaking my distros after tinkering too much, or after a major update messed up my Fedora install. But it's okay, you don't have to do any of this if you don't want to.

[u/hellloeeee]

I've been doing this for 5 years out of laziness

[u/tuxooo]

3 years, 1 installation, exactly like this, zero issues. I repeat, 3 years! 

[u/smells_serious → u/tuxooo]

Samesies

[u/the_rush_dude → u/tuxooo]

Make it 5 for me

[u/tuxooo → u/the_rush_dude]

Big bro joined the chat haha

[u/soccerbeast55]

Ran for over two years like this, not once had any issues. Such an overblown meme.

[u/Federal_Equipment578 → u/soccerbeast55]

Kid I smoked a pack a day every day for 50 years, all these "medical" folk been dropping like flies around me but I'm as fit as a youngin

[u/buplet123]

I dont keep anything that matters just on the pc anyways, these days I dont even bother changing the default settings, desktop ricing isnt my hobby, i reinstal too often to give a fuck

[u/richstyle → u/buplet123]

Pretty sure this is the natural steps of a linux user. I used to rice every linux distro i installed. Now i dont give a fuck, just the basics.

[u/diegotbn → u/buplet123]

This is where I've landed as well. Tinkering takes time. I only have so much time. I back up anything I don't want to lose. I treat my system as ephemeral.

If there's any customization I can't live without, I have custom .bashrc files and scripts and stuff in my GitHub.

Right now I'm on Arch but I've decided when it's time to do a clean install I will be going with something more batteries included like Fedora. Ive already proven to myself in can install Arch manually. My time is worth more than that.

[u/BambooGentleman]

That's what backups are for. I'm not dicking around doing "backups with extra steps", when I can just have normal backups.

But then, I'm not using Arch, but Mint and Void.

[u/orthomonas → u/BambooGentleman]

Borg and an external drive/trusted server.

[u/Aggressive_Park_4247 → u/BambooGentleman]

Haha, storage is way too expensive for that. I just gamble and pray nothing goes wrong (including my nas which is an old as shit pc i got for 10€ off fb marketplace, with the original hdd)

[u/Algarviano]

kernel panic last night.. reboot and everything is fine today. 🤘🤘

[u/thussy-obliterator]

all the shit i care about is in git or has syncthing copies 🤷‍♀️

[u/FikaMedHasse]

everyone knows the ultimate peace of mind comes from git init /

[u/Independent_Image_59]

I sometimes take nix btrfs for granted

[u/Funkey-Monkey-420]

disk safety is bloat

[u/UDxyu]

Been running that since 2021 with no issues to this day

[u/Sinful_Sam]

I've been doing this for the past 5 years and only ever encountered minor bugs, nothing system breaking.

[u/creeper6530]

That's meeee lol

[u/TheThingOnTheCeiling]

I used to have a seperate home, but the root kept getting filled up and I couldnt fix it so I just went the easy route.

[u/LOPI-14]

If it dies, it dies, tho home is on separate partition.

[u/ZunoJ]

Chroot, fix, live your life

[u/violetvoid513]

Im doing that. Everything actually important is backed up to my google drive and if something does somehow break my drive then oh well I just download the backup and the rest is just reinstalling games and other apps

[u/Significant-Tone-121]

Literally my current setup btw (Mutter is broken and makes Cinnamon restart every hour, and also I learned the NVIDIA 610 driver has worse performance than the 550 driver that Debian has somehow, so I need to wait a few more days before the data cap resets to install Debian because I don't want to get overcharged 💔)

[u/Orlha]

The data is there, I’m here to fix anything, but it doesn’t break anyway

[u/Great_Banana_Master]

Meanwhile I have Void on Btrfs, @home and @var subvolumes, and a post-install snapshot just in case

[u/regeya]

Always budget in enough money for at least a USB drive with enough storage capacity to back everything up. And if you don't want to/can't do off-site backups, at least keep the drive in something like a small fire safe.

[u/schism15]

We die like we live.

[u/AndreVallestero]

Dotfiles in my git repo, install script ready. I do not fear death.

[u/maxwells_daemon_]

Been doing that for two years. Only change I'm thinking of making is encrypting the disk cause them cybersec courses got me schizoing

[u/kongnico]

its me :p I do backups of files for work though so maybe im cheating

[u/afrolino02]

The lazy person focuses on not wasting energy

[u/arthurno1]

I have been updating my Arch since 2015, untill my motherboard died and I had to get another computer, back in 2024. I was able to take the hardrive out and get all of my files from the ext4 system.

[u/rileyrgham]

And wait until they went full boss and used LVM... With encryption.... And grub bails... I've been there... 🤣 Never again. I thought I was full beard. Home always it's own encrypted partition on my laptops, but that's it!

[u/imgly]

Since a while, I do everything like I'm losing anything at anytime, so I could not cry if my pc burns for whatever reasons.

[u/Clashes4D]

Honestly if you truly know what you’re then you can’t really break stuff. And even if soy do you can recover from it. Just might take a day to a week.

[u/Obnomus]

I just copy my entire /home on a different whever I remember.

[u/FenrirWolfie]

I do the same with my gentoo install. There is no reason to have separate partitions. There is just boot and root. Been running it like this for 15 years.

[u/Paranoidd_]

thats how i like my linux and guess what it never bugged

[u/GhostSierra117]

It's very simple: I once did this crap with different partitions for boot system home and what not and ran our of storage on the bootloader or some shit don't ask me, I don't want help, I just tell you the story. 

Since then everything is one partition. I'm too tired for this crap 

My system is literally up and running in about two hours when everything goes horribly, horribly wrong.

[u/New-Anybody3050]

This is me. I do have a server for moving things that are critical or a separate drive as redundancy but generally I nuke everything clean.

[u/PaintDrinkingPete]

I keep regular external backups...so I've always had this approach, even with all that other shit this meme mentions.

[u/krzyk]

Me as former Debian unstable/Gentoo/Debian unstable user: First time?

It tough be to keep my MBR backupmready and never encrypt the disk, few times recreating MBR was a bit stressful. Few times livecd helped me.

Arch sounds like a distro for me as I always want the newest stuff. Unfortunately employer enforces Ubuntu and it is even not the latest LTS, I have to autoconfigure/make some stuff.

Kernel is always fine tuned one.

[u/Grey_Ten]

me with btrfs compression-force enabled 🗿🗿🗿🗿

[u/SaltyBalty98]

I've been using Arch based and related for the last 10 years. Manjaro had a couple of system breaking bugs that were easily solved with tools they included. Endeavor OS for 6 years, on my desktop I've kept the same install for 2, not a single thing to complain about.

At this point, I don't care.

[u/Yuven1]

Thats me

[u/rekt4rd]

laughs in debian

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IyajjbNiRvCr7RC

[u/NoWater8595]

Y'all mofos crazy.😆

[u/cheese_master120]

Ye I do that. If smth breaks its either QuickShell or Hyprland lol

[u/dgc-8]

who makes these memes this does not happen

[u/Ponbe]

Wait, you're supposed to have home dir in another partition? 

[u/Icy_Neighborhood2100]

My configs/projects are all backed up in GitHub so it's pretty easy.

Then there's stuff like photos backed on a Google drive. Should probably degoogle at some point but it's free and I don't use much.

I'm not messing around with different filesystems when ext4 is the fastest, I would do differently if I was running a server though.

Every time I break shit it's 1 arch-chroot to fix.

[u/Particular-Poem-7085]

system updates dont break arch unless you run 3rd party software or compile your own that relies on shared system dependencies. "Breaking updates" just mean updates to dependencies, but every piece of software you install through your package manager gets updated with them to avoid these breakages. The "app store" mostly installs flatpaks that come prepackaged with its own needed dependencies and don't care about system level versions of them.

Getting a buggy update on arch is incredibly rare, you're not on the testing branch by default. In fact in my experience it is less problematic than "user friendly" distros that promise to do things for you which is just a potential failure point.

[u/Ursomrano]

I honestly only use BTRFS for the compression feature (forgot what it's called). The rest of it, I don't really care about since I have an exterior hard drive with a backup on it.

[u/deathschemist]

i keep a usb with ventoy and a cachyOS iso on for this specific purpose

if my installation dies and i can't chroot it, i'm redoing it with a separate home partition and btrfs

[u/citrusraspberry]

Nah, just fix the problem by reading logs/internet forums/AI analysis. You shouldn't need to just "revert" unless you accidentally rm -fr /usr or something

[u/kajEbrA3]

Thuglife 

[u/ploqx]

Nixos + borgbackup means if my SSD dies, I can swap it with a new one, rebuild the config, import the backup and be back in an hour. Hell if my entire PC explodes I can deploy my system to some laptop while I build a new PC.

[u/TheVoiceOfGlass]

is there a point in having a seperate home partition?

[u/AShadedBlobfish]

Discovered btrfs recently. I mean, I knew it existed but I didn't realise it was so good. Complete system restore file only a few MBs in size? Microslop could never

[u/WanderingInAVan]

Been doing multiple partitions for decades to protect my data or multiple external drives plus cloud.

[u/The_Daco_Melon]

ext4 probably wouldn't have broken like btrfs did for me

[u/PenguinPeculiaris]

My arch install wishes it could die. Any sensible person would have fixed the problems by now. My workflow is just about the only thing that works at this point. It is older than your children but not as well taken care of.

[u/diacid]

I do this and use Gentoo.

In the rare occasions I can't boot (always my fault) chroot it and fix it.

[u/jjoesmama]

My arch was on ext4 on a HDD, cloned it to a portion on an SSD with btrfs, it stopped working after sometimes, couldn't setup Timeshift because it had no subvolumes.

I just returned to ext4 last week

[u/promptmike]

Fedora for desktop, Arch for laptop. Backup important stuff to an external drive.

[u/Kenavru]

i had home on separate disk, root died, and found out alot gone anyway. nowadays alot of app user data lands outside of home. all containers etc.

[u/mariofanLIVE]

I've been doing this for almost a year at this point and it's been mostly issue free, though recently my computer decided to shut off during a kernel update (no warning, laptop with 100% battery plugged in, hadn't happened before or since), but I was able to fix things via chroot and get back up and running no problem, 0 data lost.

I don't like btrfs because if and when my system freezes and I have for force shut down, btrfs breaks almost every time, but ext4 doesn't ever break in that scenario (unless it's doing a kernel update like what I explained before). It doesn't happen often but I remember having a bug with sunshine where if I used a specific method of streaming and started sunshine, when I would connect to it on moonlight my system would lock up like this. I've since solved this problem, but it was way easier to troubleshoot when I didn't have to chroot every time a fix didn't work.

It's either fix problems more often but it's easier to fix them, or it's harder to fix them but I have problems way less often. I've opted to have fewer but more complex problems by using ext4.

[u/Tiranus58]

I do all of these except i put my /home/ on a separate partition, because its a holdover from a previous install.

[u/Recipe-Jaded]

I've had Arch like this for 7 years. No update has ever broken my system. Only I broke it by not reading what I was doing.

I have had some minor hiccups from updates, but that is what downgrade is for.

[u/richardbouteh]

brtfs is the best. update breaks? roll back snapshot, go on with your life, try again tomorrow

[u/sandfeger]

I've done this 2 times, yes I'm stupid lazy but now I run btrfs with snapshots and I'm at the point to not care about my home everything in there is taking me about 2-3hours to reconfigure and reauth everything meaningfull is saved on a separate drive that has Backups.

[u/NostalgiaRealm]

Rawdogging is best dogging

[u/jimused4]

I swear to god every distro i use breaks in like 4 months. Yes im doing it right and no im not going to change how i do things

[u/Floppie7th]

This is how I run mine.  Anything important doesn't live only on one machine.  Code is in git repos, documents are in Nextcloud, game saves are synced to Steam's cloud, etc

[u/ellendale7m4]

That's how I use my Arch. Only nvidia driver can be troublesome at times

[u/lunchbox651]

I do have /home on another drive and backup my hosts and fstab but thats it. If root dies I don't care. An OS install is a few minutes work.

[u/sevenstaves]

Unless the drive is encrypted and you forgot the password, you can recover your data.

[u/DoktorLuciferWong]

i recall once telling a friend how I was -Syu'ing my work system just before finals, and that he commended me for my bravery (but not intelligence)

lol

[u/Snudget]

Me booting the previous Nix generation when I break something. (Also have a 2TB drive just for /nix/store)

[u/Outrageous-Lab-2138]

2 years straight, no issues.

[u/ZuuRa_]

My setup fr (it just work)

[u/Condog5]

Lasted about 2 months doing this, worth asf.

[u/Nytra]

It's pretty safe as long as you are competent in the terminal and keep up to date on the arch news for any warnings

[u/adamkex]

Using ext4 in 2026...

[u/Felixgamer27]

I do that and also blindly install a lot of AUR packages, so I'm basicly doing a Russian roulette every yay -Syu

[u/jsrobson10]

if it breaks, just arch-chroot in

[u/BigEmu__]

Rsync to homelab before update, ez

[u/mistrjirka]

Better then BTRFS suddenly getting a stroke and being absolutely unable to even chroot into the system.

[u/SithLordRising]

So you're a dotfiles guy

[u/SaveThisCityDweller]

I back my shit up with kopia to a laptop under my desk at work  ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I do have a separate home though, crazy not to honestly.  

[u/Portbragger2]

see thats the difference ... i've been running debian for 11 years now, also ext4, no separate home and no timeshift and i've been distro-upgrading since forever and never even once had to think about the attitude depicted.

[u/MouseJiggler]

I just have a daily backup script?

[u/Better-Sleep8296]

Atleast i have seperate director can't risk the data i have. 💀

[u/squarewtf]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9rhNJScGSlneHpLtnz

[u/Silent_Bite_5892]

My second drive for storing music, movies, pr0n etc, is ext4.

But the main is btrfs. Not that I have a choice (Fedora Kinoite).

[u/plastictoyman]

Relying on your OS to backup your data or keep it safe is silly. There's two kinds of people in this world: those that backup their data and those that haven't lost it all yet.

[u/shinjis-left-nut]

oh you mean like the correct way to set up a system?

https://giphy.com/gifs/CAYVZA5NRb529kKQUc

[u/ZaenalAbidin57]

the only thing im intriguing with arch is that their kernel update are replacing the one existed, so when it failed to update the kernel it will borked the system, other system are just adding new kernel entries to it

[u/joebanana1984]

Non credevo di essere così coraggioso

[u/ragashanmugam]

I been using arch for 4 years nothing broken, if i intentionally want broken it broker.

[u/KawaiiMaxine]

Erm im on btrfs (with no subvoluming or any of the actual reasons to use btrfs that arent on by default)

[u/Enigmars]

I trust Arch Linux devs to be 5 million times more competent than me so I have no problem trusting my PC with their OS

[u/sakata_baba]

never used arch
but i do run my machine like that

[u/Cybasura]

Btrfs also has risks of dying, maybe even more, why the political propaganda against ext4?

[u/Jak1977]

Borg. If you have backups, then it doesn't matter if drives die!

[u/AsugaNoir]

Before Installing I googled the recommended way to do it so I went with btrfs and have snapshots enabled.

[u/Global-Eye-7326]

On HDD??? Lol!

[u/Alexandre_Man]

What's timeshift?

[u/someone12345656657]

Im doing it like this, but i have a seperate home partition on a seperate disk

[u/MeringueOdd4662]

That is why I installed Linux Mint. I have a life to live.

[u/vermithius]

That's me lol. I backup most of my important stuff to a local smb share though maybe once a week.

[u/atrawog]

What's the problem? You can always recover from the disk image you've made with dd.

[u/deesernutz]

Ok this might be a bit of an ignorant loser question, but its a serious one...

...whats wrong with ext4?

[u/Admiral_Bongo]

Ain't no biggie. It just takes being at least a little responsible with your system. And considering the resilience of ext4... You really gotta WANT to break your filesystem to have any problems.

[u/Wertbon1789]

I built some fancier systems at work and on my Laptop, but my PC is my first installation, so no fancy back then. Only thing I changed was adding a drive which I use as my /home drive, and the other one for the main system. If it works, it works. I make backups of it, but if it ever breaks, I'll probably go for btrfs, (maybe with full disk encryption), and toy around with LVM a bit.

[u/MissionGround1193]

At my laziest, keep 1 LTS kernel. My normal habit, put everything in restic repo. The space saving from dedupe is ridiculous.

[u/Camlin3]

What about luks fs

[u/dj3hac]

I have a separate drive for /home but only because my main drive ran out of space.

[u/Modno1754]

I mean, every update brakes something for me (mainly caelestia) but fuck it Im too lazy to do anything so Ill just fiddle around with it till fixed

[u/center_of_blackhole]

My important docs always stays online I'm good to format pc anytime 🤣

[u/ImpeccablyDangerous]

My linux boxes are either my work machine or deployment targets.

My code is in the repository. The deployment targets are ephemeral.

If it fails so be it.

[u/SolWildmann]

Exactly how I felt for 4 years I used arch

[u/alfred_the_sudoer]

that's me

[u/bartek_666666]

Hey, thats me

[u/swe__wannabe]

I have all my data backed up, my dotfiles are on github, I have nothing to lose. I don't wanna pay for the overhead cost of btfs

[u/Arszerol]

Filesystem, partitions, snapshots - those are NOT backups

[u/giggles91]

Done this for 10 years. Still the same install, still going strong.

[u/MaleficentCow8513]

I have no idea what any of that means. I just install it and it works

[u/Arnas_Z]

Oh, that's me. Yeah idgaf because I just chroot if something breaks.

[u/trans_psychonaut]

isnt it more likely an upgrade fucks up your install if you dont do it regulary? at least in my experience if you let too many updates stack up the chance there is a higher chance there is some conflict and it gets fucked up during hte upgrade

[u/EdmondVDantes]

 Do people really update?

[u/syntkz777]

xfs, home is on another partition but for other reasons, I never needed a snapshot.

[u/SteamMonkeyRocks]

Doing this for more than 10 years. The only time something broke was my fault. It took a couple of minutes to fix.

[u/punnotattended]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BcYsNgcomT9RRgLVOa

[u/Dlight98]

What's wrong with ext4?

[u/Episode-1022]

oh, that's me.

[u/Nordicmoose]

If the developers of Timeshift would be so kind and add support for backup to a NAS...

[u/Pedro73376]

This is the way