I daily Fedora at home (and Windows at work). Got tired Arch breaking every so often, and wanted something that didn't come with anxiety with every update haha

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that is completely fine. I would not dare to go Arch on work computer. :D OpenSuse works like a charm, but in general pre/post update snaphosts always save the day.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I thought those preupdate snapshotters were crazy paranoid freaks... until my first Arch update hahahaha

I've wanted to try OpenSuse for a while now. I have a spare laptop that I was planning on installing Gentoo on, but am dreading the antiquated (by today's standards) installation process. Maybe I'll use it for OpenSuse.

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

YOu can set those pre/post snapshots automatically and not really pay attention. I think OpenSuse does that by default if you install your root on btrfs. They even have an OS version called MicroOS which does a cool thing with snaphosts. Basically if your system does not boot after update it will revert automatically to previous snapshot, or you can pick a snapshot to boot into manually from grub menu. Bit it is quite a different thing than your usual linux distro as it uses read only root FS.