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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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busy as usual, alas

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[–] hdnclr@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got bored and installed Arch on my desktop. I'm back on Arch after using Ubuntu for years.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I keep considering putting Arch on my desktop (it currently has Ubuntu) but I feel like I would have to back up all my files. Is there a way to upgrade without backing up everything onto one of my hard drives? I'm just worried I'd miss something

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You really should back up your system though

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So there's no way of just telling the imager to skip a folder or two? Would switching over even be worth it?

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Donno what an imager is. Backup tools do have skip options.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

By imager, I just mean when installing an OS

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the thing is that we don't trust installers, more or less. Nobody should.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's fair