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First week: https://piefed.social/c/linux4noobs/p/1977063/i-m-nearing-my-first-full-time-week-on-linux

I thought I was going to write that my second week on Linux was rather boring because I had everything set up and was just working doing everyday tasks.

That was until Friday where I decided it was time to do a distro upgrade (I use openSUSE Tumbleweed, which is a rolling distro). That did not go well. It made me question my distro choice and I even considered hopping to Debian, because it's stable AF (or so I heard), boring (old packages), widely supported (basically all software has a an official .deb package) and has a large community and multiple resources online. At first I thought I wouldn't like packages that are a couple years old, but it seems that my whole stack is there, so I wouldn't notice. Meanwhile, on Tumbleweed I have issues here and there because it's not as mainstream and is bleeding edge. For the time being, I will migrate to Slowroll soon.

I bought a couple books about Linux, started reading the first one.

I have a project to move my Google Drive, OneDrive and Google Photos somewhere else. Nextcloud seems like the best solution, but I also like Immich as a replacement for Google Photos. That made me think about self-hosting. The Hetzner Storage Share looks nice because it's a cheap, managed Nextcloud, but not having access to the database feels like vendor lock-in and a possible friction point in the future, so I am thinking of renting a VPS. I also have a pretty beefy old PC at home, but it's currently damaged (I think either the motherboard or the PSU is dead, I didn't diagnose yet).

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[-] steel_for_humans@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure how difficult OpenSuse rollbacks are.

They are actually very easy. Check the list of snapshots and note the one from before you screwed up, reboot, select the snapshot from which you want to launch the system, test, if it's OK run sudo snapper rollback and reboot. I use LUKS / TPM with auto-unlock, so I need to reenroll the key

I know setting up Snapper to snapshot takes a few extra steps/maintance.

In openSUSE it's set up out of the box, that was one of the reasons behind my choice of this distro.

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