• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean, I could just patch and do some housecleaning, and maybe adjust partitions.

    OR I could reinstall fucking everything from scratch because it feels good.

    • comador @lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Good rule of thumb I’ve decided upon over the years for this:

      “If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee”.

      Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It’s been a good metric to follow.

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        1 day ago

        Because automation, containers, and VMs are fucking cool. I can run computers inside other computers. I can run tiny little computers that only do one thing. How fucking cool is that?

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          I’m really excited about bootable containers. There is so much potential and I would love to see distros outside of Fedora and Red Hat running it.

          Imagine running Arch but instead of battling your single system you instead created a Dockerfile and then built and tested new containers once and a while. You could even define tests so that a bad update would be flagged.