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Because it's reinstalling all the apps that actually takes time. Yes, hopefully you put all the Really Important Stuff in your home or somewhere else where it
by Shog9 11y ago
Because it's reinstalling all the apps that actually takes time.
Yes, hopefully you put all the Really Important Stuff in your home or somewhere else where it can be trivially copied (and backed up...) - including your favorite editor, all your configuration files, and any other tools you can't live without.
But then you remember that you recently added a new tool to your workflow, a really shiny package, but one which also required installing approximately 1300 dependencies and for some reason a kernel driver. It took you a solid week to get running properly, and you've long forgotten all the hoops you had to jump through to do it.
- striking 11y agoThis is why I thank my lucky stars that I use a rolling release distro. Configuration is in my home folder, and my system is no more than a list of packages or PKGBUILDs.
- kozukumi 11y agoWhich is actually very similar to what Microsoft are doing with Windows 10. The OS and "apps" are all "rolling" in that sense with the list of packages stored on some MS server. Not exactly the same as something like Arch and it only works for store apps but it is a step in the right way I guess.