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What a mood. Im very guilty of not making backups and ruining setups only to have to start all over.
I'm a fairly new linux user so this is bound to happen again lol.
One word: Timeshift
Yup. Ive heard timeshift is good. Now i just gotta actually use it.
Hows the experience with timeshift been when youve used it? Pretty easy to restore from?
Pretty easy, and it's saved my bacon a handful of times. Most recently I restored from command line because I borked my display driver (legacy Nvidia user).
Aside from that instance, everything else was done through the GUI.
oh dude i never do backups each time i start over from scratch its a brand new version of linux. the only "important" files (that I know of), i sync to the cloud.
Haha i feel that man. I'm thinking of switching to Linux entirely and ditching Windows so i gotta get better at making backups otherwise its gonna be full reinstalls no stop.
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Oh thats neat. I'm assuming that can be configured for other package managers when you're calling the apt equivalent?
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Thats really good to know. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.