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  • Recently read a comment here: “Think you have a backup? Delete your drives now. If you’re hesitant, you don’t really have a backup.”

    As true as that is: I’d be in the “hesitant” category because I only back up my data / containers, not my bare metal system and its config. Do you guys? (Proxmox users will probably do, but what about the rest?)






  • If you want a good first Linux experience, stick with anything Ubuntu-/Debian-based; they are

    • stable workhorses, i.e. they don’t break on you as easily as rolling release distros like CachyOS.
    • wildly popular, i.e. you’ll find plenty of resources to help you get started (although, to be fair, the Arch wiki is also ridiculously detailed).

    Whatever you do, steer clear of immutable distros like Bazzite for now. As cool as the concept is (I run Bazzite on my gaming machine) - as soon as you do something “non-standard” (and modding your Minecraft .jar with Optifine already qualifies as such), you’ll have to fiddle with the terminal and distrobox containers, both of which will be alien concepts for you at the start and may be top much to make it a good first impression.

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