Time to Reformat; Any reason to wait for next release?

[drunkenvicar]

@ArchieLinux

As is often said, many of us fix our systems until they break.
Apparently, I’m in this tribe.

I have managed to completely fubar every distro/DE I ever tried in a series of trial and errors and experiments and doing the absolutely wrong things with no supervision or consultation of anyone in a boy’s zeal to turn over every rock, every folder, every variable and learn learn learn on my own. Can’t say I’m sorry about it either. Mixing up the DD if and of commands you only do once … among many other digital butcherings…
That tribe, yes.

[Mike09]

Heh. My secret superpower is finding edge cases just by using the software as it was designed to be used. Perhaps my secret superpower should be classified under the heading of, “Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.”

[jfabernathy]

One thing I do before a complete reinstall is just restore from a baseline snapshot that I take.

Since I originally install with btrfs, snapper, btrfs-assistant, snap-pac, and grub-btrfs, I have a lot of snapshots taken a critical points when things were right. So when things are screwing up because I played with a new window manager or something that messes with .config files, I just take the 2 seconds to restore @ and @home to a know state. I keep all my data on a NAS so restoring doesn’t loose anything critical.