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I definitely agree. One grave mistake I made had resulted in all my data being lost. I have always been Fedora fan and mostly I am not disappointed, (although
by TheLegace 13y ago
I definitely agree.
One grave mistake I made had resulted in all my data being lost.
I have always been Fedora fan and mostly I am not disappointed, (although Fedora suffers from equally annoying bugs as well, like sound). But overall it's a great distro, and installs nicely.
Now I am doing development work, so tend to try and stay up to date as much as possible, since the software I use is very unstable and just beginning to mature so they can play fast and loose with the upgrade cycle.
Now typically Fedora installs are easy, I can allocate free space or it knows about other distros and I can replace them.
Now I had a perfect running system with Fedora 18 and Linux Mint 13(Maya), and probably longest running without upgrade. After this long period I had forgotten that if I want Linux Mint, I have to manually partition for it to behave properly. I had forgotten this and selected the option to replace the existing Linux Mint like I always do in Fedora for like the last 4 releases.
For whatever reason it automatically chooses my raid partiton(sda), instead of my SSD(sdb) which I store my OSes on to format, and I loose about 1.5TB of data I have been collecting for sometime.
Not to mention it is incapable of behaving nicely with Fedora(possibly due to LVM structure) and in the end I loose everything and have to go back to scratch. It also makes a new partition for the bootloader then cannot boot Fedora, I cannot even repair the grub bootloader for both oses to work together.
It's a shame because one release ago everything was fine.
But now I have sworn of Ubuntu and Linux Mint unless I am forced to.
It's come to a point where I just want to create the same packages for Fedora and maintain it myself. I am sick and tired of this constant upgrading and loosing your shit. I am use to it as a developer, but it's really starting to kill a lot of time having to re-setup my system.