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[โ€“] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (34 children)

Run updates without me having to worry that "whoops, an update was fucked, and the system is not unbootable anymore. Enjoy the next 6 hours of begging on forums for someone to help you figure out what happened, before being told that the easiest solution is to just wipe your drive and do a fresh install, while you get berated by strangers for not having the entirety of the Linux kernel source code committed to memory."

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That's why I make a btrfs snapshot of my system before every upgrade. Rolling back from a rescue image takes only a minute.

Edit: automatically via the upgrade script

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What a great idea! They should automate something like that! Maybe they could call it System Restore?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I never claimed to have invented the technique.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They're just pointing out that Windows does this too.

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