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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed helps because you can create a btrfs snapshot at any moment and then roll back to it if you get in trouble. And it does this automatically whenever you update the packages.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Gang. The only distro I haven't been able to break after 6 months (well, I have, but I've been able to snapper rollback every time)
It's the first rolling distro I have tried, and I've been running it for about 3 years now without any real problems. I think maybe twice there have been updates that cause issues, out of hundreds of updates per week. It's surprisingly solid, and everything's up to date.
Not everyone would want hundreds of updates per week of course, but it's up to the user to decide how often to install updates. Unlike Windows, the updates don't intrude, and they are fast.
It seems to hit that right balance of bleeding edge while SUSE are still testing the packages for a bit to ensure there aren't bad updates. Fedora sounds interesting to me as well, but I'm not going to fix what isn't broken.
👍 never had to start over
Been looking for a DR system for Ubuntu or mint, need to look into it myself but would like some feedback if this could be the right ticket.
I just bought a raspberry pi 4 to host plex, I'm sure I could get it to do backup and restore too. Looking into it
I wanted to give OpenSuse Tumbleweed a go yesterday, but the live USB got stuck at “Loading basic drivers” so I couldn’t even get to being able to install it.