For me, it depends on how much I fuck around with the system. For example, I installed my current system at the start of the year. Since then, I have notably:
Tried out several different programming languages
Set up QEMU+Vagrant
Played around with Nextcloud and Joomla
Shortly installed the Enlightenment DE to see what that’s up to
All of these tasks required some changes to my system that I don’t necessarily need anymore.
And as this post implies, it’s fine. It doesn’t actually impact anything. But I would like to have that cleaned up anyways.
And if at some point, I have too much time at hands, I might actually deal with that. And then re-installing may seem like the easier option than manually going through everything.
For me, it depends on how much I fuck around with the system. For example, I installed my current system at the start of the year. Since then, I have notably:
All of these tasks required some changes to my system that I don’t necessarily need anymore.
And as this post implies, it’s fine. It doesn’t actually impact anything. But I would like to have that cleaned up anyways.
And if at some point, I have too much time at hands, I might actually deal with that. And then re-installing may seem like the easier option than manually going through everything.