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I was doing command line stuff while tweaking on coffee and having a bit of an anxiety attack and I accidentally deleted my home directory.

But I have automated daily snapshots saved which is a ZFS feature. And I was able to simply restore from the latest snapshot which was from this morning. So this is the first time ever that I got any benefit from being on ZFS.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here is why setup is superior:

  • sunk cost fallacy
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yup, I know the feeling. That's why it can be nice to start fresh with a new installation or new distro.