I Broke Linux... How to learn from my mistakes

I'm going to show you how to never break your linux installation ever again! We’re going to use time shift for snapshots, BTRFS for our file system, and timeshift-autosnap as a very special tool to save snapshots when we use Pacman!

[EXQEX]

Arch Linux is an RPG.

You bite the bullet and install it, despite your friends warning you that it's going to eat SO MUCH of your free time.
Your girlfriend is confused by it, but she's glad you're enjoying yourself...at least when you're not yelling at the screen.
Character creation is insane. You spend your first day customizing and don't actually do anything productive.
Your coworkers are tired of you talking about it. They run Ubuntu. Casuals.
Your boss is tired of losing productivity hours to it.
And, periodically, you fight a big boss called "Oh shoot, this update did something bad, I should have paid attention". Pretty sure that's a callback to a world boss in Guild Wars 2, but I could be wrong.

[gerwazy]

Great moment to just start using nixos and never have to worry again. And you also got to say "I use nixos btw"

[senoraraton]

I was waiting for the "My solution was.... NixOS!":P

[irlshrek]

btw if you run something and you forget to add sudo you can run "sudo !!" and itll prepend sudo to your previous command and run it

[CNich]

You have a fantastic way of making something sound super exciting lol. Great video!

[JessicaFEREM]

If your distro comes with timeshift preinstalled, you can just launch it from a boot USB and change your snapshot there.

[simonlauer]

i prefer snapper over timeshift
also nice snap-pac pac-man hooks to automatically create snapper snapshots before and after doing pac-man operations

[nico]

Small correction: At 16:38 you said grub-btrfsd picked up the change but in fact the grub reconfiguration here is done by the pacman hook from timeshift-autosnap. As you can see at 15:40 you have set updateGrub=true

[dezly-macauley]

🤘Former Arch user here. Arch is super cool, but NixOS let's me be a mad scientist in a safe environment with Btrf and rollobacks out the box. Oddly enough the only Linux distro I ever broke was...wait for it...Debian stable.

[InspiredPlans]

I switched to NixOS and it’s a breath of fresh air!

[Noah-ztsf]

Dude reinvented NixOS.
You just summoned nix army

[MattSnow]

“This will then start and update our Matt Daemon to start automatically.” 😂

[dr_regularlove]

Lots of people have already mentioned it, but last year I switched to NixOS after having broke my Arch install for the last time. There's a learning curve, it's quite different from any other Linux distro, but the benefits are absolutely worth it. And you can use it like a rolling release when you want the latest packages, or pin packages to specific versions when you want, you are in complete control.

[giovannimazzocco]

Amazing tutorial. That basically enables NixOS-like rollback capabilities on any Linux system. Great stuff!

[maguilecutty]

arch and gnome = most underrated system - all aspects of cool prety stuff like osx etc but cooler - great with a iwm or something for zen like work environment! rate it !

[omercelebi]

Next video: "I Broke my grub bootloader..."

[HowToLinux]

I hate to admit it, but I noticed a very big speed difference in pacman between btrfs and ext4.
Some time ago I was setting up Arch on WSL, and it was just blazing fast.

With BTRFS it is like 2-3x slower even when no snapshots are made and the FS is balanced.

[MrVampify]

It has a really steep learning curve but nixos would solve this forever and give you magic sysadmin powers should you keep a pure config.

[wcrb]

Time shift is a lifesaver. At my previous job they let me use Arch and my computer shut down in the middle of an update and it screwed everything 😂 I ended up having to reinstall everything. That was the day I became diligent about using time shift

[amitkrxyz]

Wow, I was also recently playing with grub-btrfs in my fedora. Helpful video.