• Sestren@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The whole point of doing a separate partition for your home directory is to do just that… The fuck is this even supposed to mean.

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      2 hours ago

      Uh… I don’t have a separate partition for /home. I have a separate zfs filesystem for it though. If I run into issues, I can restore from snapshot and not affect it.

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      6 hours ago

      If you got a problem, reinstall and do the same stuff again, you’ll almost certainly get the same problem again. So, no, it’s only productive if you are in a fucked-up environment where changes bring more breakage than they fix.

      It’s useful if you don’t plan to do the same thing again, though. So if you are just trying random stuff, yeah, go ahead.

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        If you got a problem, reinstall and do the same stuff again, you’ll almost certainly get the same problem again

        Sure, but nobody’s likely to do that. If I wiped my system now, I doubt I could get it back to exactly the same state if I tried. There are way too many moving parts. There are changes I’ve forgotten I ever applied, or only applied accidentally. And there are things I’d do differently if I had the chance to start over (like installing something via a different one of the half-dozen-or-so methods of installing packages on my distro).

        For example, I have Docker installed because I once thought a problem I had might have been Podman-specific. Turned out it was not. But I never did the surgery necessary to fully excise Docker. I probably won’t bother unless and until there is a practical reason to.