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> If you don’t back up your stuff all bets are off Yes I always plan ahead incase the OS becomes corrupted. I just assume that an OS will fail at some stage, a
by blindm 6y ago
> If you don’t back up your stuff all bets are off
Yes I always plan ahead incase the OS becomes corrupted. I just assume that an OS will fail at some stage, and I have prepared so many times setting up a new OS from scratch I could nearly do it blindfolded.
The trick is to 'rehearse' a clean install of an OS repeatedly so that it doesn't feel so harrowing when it does fail (and I've had plenty of actual crashes over the course of my daily computing adventures, covering different OSes like Linux, macOS, Windows).
- buzzerbetrayed 6y agoDespite the downvote, I 100% agree with you. I reinstall my OS every couple years it seems like. Because of this practice, I can have my laptop destroyed at any time and it won't matter to me at all, besides the cost of the hardware. The only thing I would lose at all is any unpushed code, which is only a couple hours of work at most. It is great to have a setup like this, as I am reminded any time someone I know has a hard drive failure and is freaking out about it.
- Fnoord 6y ago> The trick is to 'rehearse' a clean install of an OS repeatedly so that it doesn't feel so harrowing when it does fail (and I've had plenty of actual crashes over the course of my daily computing adventures, covering different OSes like Linux, macOS, Windows). A tool like Ansible, Nix, or Docker Compose is useful in such situations.
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