Re:Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution
by imtringued on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:31PM
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Replicating the setup when you need to reinstall? What?
I once had my computer crash during a kernel update and this left the system unbootable. All you have to do is use the arch iso and arch-chroot into your system to rerun/undo the kernel update or whatever other update broke your system. The thing is, even a "reinstall" is merely about deleting packages and then rerunning pacman and reinstalling your bootloader. Your /home and /etc stay untouched. You can take the list of installed packages and then install those. I mostly needed that when moving from an old laptop to a new one.
Re:Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution
by Espionage724 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:37PM
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Cruft is left around from caches and old program data all the time. A clean install handles that, and lets me verify my configs are still good and think about way to change them. Clean installs also let me do full-drive SSD trims.
I'd rather nuke from orbit and rebuild than duct-tape holes :p
Unless something major changed, you're dropped to a terminal as soon as you boot the install image, and have to either have advanced knowledge on what to do from there, or have the wiki side-by-side on another device. And unless you're taking incredible notes at the same time, good luck replicating the set-up if you need to reinstall.
Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and most other mainstream distros at least boot you into a GUI to install.