• JATth@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

    So it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before pacman -Syu?

    I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D

    I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.

    • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.

      • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Despite its popularity, I’ve never had much luck with Void. However, I could try it again. 17th time’s the charm!

          • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            Just the little things, really. App compatibility, xbps not having too many packages, issues with Musl, GRUB not loading on the LiveUSB, desktop/WM selection, and also I don’t like the way Runit works. I could make it work if I needed to, but overall it just seems like too much effort.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        2·
        9 months ago

        To be frank I went away from Gentoo for much the same reason. And the constant compilation. I only used it once after that for a small project where I needed to minimise what actually lands in the OS.

        But all that was years ago.