• jpablo68@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    As a former arch linux guy, the solution to this is to be prepared by having a separate partition for home, and a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again with a single command.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again

      Why would you ever want to do that?

      First of all, almost any Arch update induced problem can be solved by downgrading the offending package to the previous version, which handily is available in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.

      Even an unbootable system (which has only happened once in my 10 years of using Arch because I didn’t read important news) can be fixed this way, because you can always boot from the installation usb stick and then use arch-chroot to access your installation and fix problems.

      Secondly, if the problem was indeed caused by an Arch update, you will just reinstall the problem if you run a reinstall script.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.