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Sometimes it has its own problems, but it doesn't mean that it's not great (lemmy.world)
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[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a former arch linux guy, the solution to this is to be prepared by having a separate partition for home, and a bash script to reinstall f---ing everything again with a single command.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again

Why would you ever want to do that?

First of all, almost any Arch update induced problem can be solved by downgrading the offending package to the previous version, which handily is available in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.

Even an unbootable system (which has only happened once in my 10 years of using Arch because I didn't read important news) can be fixed this way, because you can always boot from the installation usb stick and then use arch-chroot to access your installation and fix problems.

Secondly, if the problem was indeed caused by an Arch update, you will just reinstall the problem if you run a reinstall script.

[–] sazey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly I only ever learnt Linux admin by troubleshooting my borked Arch updates, necessity being the mother of invention and all.

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.

Well you see, I didn't know that haha, I know there are better ways to deal with a "defective" arch update but to me, that was the easiest, laziest way to do it and it worked most of the time. I have to admit this was a "me" problem I'm not blaming arch it's just that I grew tired of things breaking because I didn't read the news before doing pacman -Syu.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah my last reinstall was because of important news I didn't read.

[–] Moreless@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You reinvented NixOS

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

I want to install NixOS on a laptop that I have lying around BTW.