I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.
This post is from 2020-08-12.
Used to hate when windows update between my work.
But since trying Arch, i do pacman Syu almost everyday.
Its kinda addicting, and it give some statisfactions for myself, i dont know why
But now I’m past that stage, and just update it like every 2 weeks.
Going to Gentoo, i repeat the same process again. Seeing the console log is hipnotising and give a statisfaction for me when it complete successfully. I update like every 3 days
Now i update once a month hahaha
Which are you?
alias update=sudo timeshift --create --comments update && sudo pacman -Syuor
alias yolo=yes | sudo pacman -Syuyolo
This is the first I’m hearing of timeshift. I will be looking into this.
Alias yolo=yes 😂 I know what new alias I’m creating on my laptop and rasp pi’s 😂
consider then https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
Timeshift has saved my stupid ass way too many times
Can you explain the usecase for timeshift? I am interested in the idea however I have never needed something like this in many years of using Linux on many different platforms.
Other then giving piece of mind, How is timeshift useful in real life? How has it saves you?
When you install or update something that breaks something, like has happened to me many times, to the point that the system cannot boot, you can pick a snapshot from the grub menu from before those changes occurred, allowing you to recover your system to a working state without the use of a live boot usb.
It’s also been useful when some program or other stops working due to some change in a dependency somewhere, like OBS sometimes does. Then you can just hop backwards in time to a point where it works and get to actually using your system, instead of spending hours tracking down exactly where an error is occurring right then and there. “fixing it later” becomes a valid way of dealing with problems with your system, when just pressing a button lets you make it temporarily go away.
timeshift saved my ass when wine installation removed xorg. rewind one day back, note to self: wine is probably badly broken, do not use, and you’re good to go
I update every 2-3 weeks or so. Is this really a thing?
Well, it’s a meme with some exaggeration so not really. But daily perhaps? :)