Any one using Linux?

@Elessar Pain? I don't know about that. I can install it in less than 10 minutes. It can be an annoyance. However, there scripts that can install the os really simple.

@Arian It depends where you install it on, I guess. I mean, setting up luks, lvm, zfs, etc. manually isn't a fast experience. Sure I could make myself a .sh and store it somewhere, but knowing me I'll lose it before the next reinstall xD

Or you can put it on gethub like most of us.

@Arian I'd have to reimport my SSH key on a live distro all the times I need to reinstall tho. 🤔

I might give it another go anyway. Also because OpenSUSE doesn't seem to support Budgie; GNOME shell is becoming less and less usable, KDE is a cl*sterfuck, I'm currently on XFCE but let's say it's not the nicest desktop environment out there.

Why do you have to constantly reinstall tho? I use i3-gaps. I love it.

@Arian Development machines get clogged up quite fast with me. Also, I need and like to have a clean system, and nothing works better than reinstalling the OS, lol

snapshot?

@Arian Hmm, true, could be an idea. They take up a lot of space tho I guess? Can they be stored off-site, or in some secondary disk?

They don't take up alot of space. What are you talking about? Yes they can.

@Arian I'll give that a look. Thanks. With off-site I meant like in a NAS or anywhere that isn't on my machine, lol.

I know what off-site means. I was asking what are you talking about because you assumed it took up a lot of space.

@Arian I used incremental BTRFS snapshots once and they were getting insanely huge, it's been the only experience I've had with them tbh

I'm just confused. If you are constantly re installing the os why use incremental snapshots?

@Arian Well, there's usually some months between reinstallations, weeks at the very least. And I needed snapshots because I was on a rolling distribution, and kernel updates often fucked up everything, especially the GPU drivers. Sometimes reverting them was the only way to have the machine functional in a reasonable time.

Arch is a rolling release and it updates constantly. I never experienced any issues. What distro did you use?

@Arian Which drivers are you using? It's not a matter of distros, but a matter of drivers. Nvidia officials need to be recompiled whenever you update the kernel and sometimes the compatibility gets broken, especially when the kernel gets updated but the drivers not. The alternative is using nouveau, which doesn't work with my GPU, or distro provided ones, which usually are older/unoptimized. 🤔

I use nvidia drivers.

@Elessar Again what distro are you using?

@Arian Like I said on the top comment, OpenSUSE. You got them from pacman I suppose?

Oh I forgot about tumbleweed. When I tried opensuse it was before it was a rolling release. Are you asking do I get my drivers from the aur or official repository?

@Arian yep, wait Nvidia has an official repo?

I use the drivers from the official repo