24h ago

Just installed mint yesterday, I get it now

I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

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Just wait when you try AUR on arch systems. I was long time ubuntu based user but once I tasted rolling release and AUR I don't want to go back.
- It is going to make to want to go back
  Someday
  When you least expect it, and have a deadline
  
  For me that day was yesterday. Ran an update. Next bootup got a black screen.
  Saw it as a sign that it's time to distro hop again lol
  
  I know the feeling! I've been happily rolling with opensuse tumbleweed for almost a year now. Btrfs rollback is a life saver (2 times). Less than 5 minutes for a rollback. Other than that, pretty solid..
  
  Snapper is the shit
  
  That happened to me few times, once GPU driver update, once grub update, both relatively easy to fix by searching the error on Endeavour forums and reading their official updates. And both of these issues was me not reading the update notes.
  And when I was once forced to reinstall it was matter of an hour at most to have PC with working environment up and running, thanks to separate home mount and keeping all my installation notes in one place.
  But one can do that with Ubuntu too.
  I learnt one lesson from my manny distro-hopping sessions in the last 12 years, allways separate home from system amd keep all essential installation scripts and files in one place.
- I was a Nobara user and I've gone back. Too many updates that Bork the DE/bootloader (TBF it's not as maintained as AUR) As for fedora... Random NVidia update borked the system too... But I'm resigned as my GPU being cursed rather than the distro being the isue

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