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    Seems about right (infosec.pub)
    submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    Yeah, it's probably my own fault. I tend to ...over-tinker(?) when I have something as deeply customizable as Arch/KDE. Bazzite has saved me from that for the most part, though I do like getting my KDE just right.

    But yeah, with large updates I will sometimes get an error about "libalpm" or something, and then when I try to run yay again, the db.lck is present so I have to delete it, blah blah blah.... Rollback with timeshift and try again, this time exclude everything but /core and /extra, get those installed, reboot, then install the rest.

    This time I got it working pretty quickly due to previous experiences. The worst was the time I did it while not having enough space on my hdd to cover the entire update (but didn't realize until after it already started). That was a fun day lol.

    Timeshift was/is a lifesaver on that laptop. Though I think having it as a fallback did make me a little more reckless with my tinkering... But I'm relatively new to Linux, and that's how I learn.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    BTRFS snapshots are a god send. I really have no idea how many times they've saved me from a complete reinstall. One did happen about a week ago, I completely messed up my Void install. Bring back snapshots with Timeshift, everything is good to go!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, life saver. If you like impossible to break OS, check out an immutable/Atomic distro (I'm on Bazzite). One command to rollback to previous build.

    rpm-ostree will change your life.... Lol JK. It's cool though.