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What's your self-induced pain points fellow linux users (lemmy.world)
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[–] 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean, I could just patch and do some housecleaning, and maybe adjust partitions.

OR I could reinstall fucking everything from scratch because it feels good.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Good rule of thumb I've decided upon over the years for this:

    "If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee".

    Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It's been a good metric to follow.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Automate everything and leverage container and VMs

    Why? IDK

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because automation, containers, and VMs are fucking cool. I can run computers inside other computers. I can run tiny little computers that only do one thing. How fucking cool is that?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm really excited about bootable containers. There is so much potential and I would love to see distros outside of Fedora and Red Hat running it.

    Imagine running Arch but instead of battling your single system you instead created a Dockerfile and then built and tested new containers once and a while. You could even define tests so that a bad update would be flagged.

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