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Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] Roopappy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

my concern is that I install a distro this year and want to switch to SteamOS later, but would have to start over with customizations, etc. in the new distro.

I wouldn't sweat that at all.

I switched distros last week, didn't like the new one as much as I thought I would, and switched again a few days later. It's not that big of a deal. Install some apps, reload your files from a USB stick. It's not a major commitment.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A good way to keep this easy for yourself is to keep the files you actually care about like pictures, game saves, documents, etc all on a separate partition. It makes it very easy to make a backup for distro hopping.

You can nuke your OS as many times as you like, and everything will be exactly in the same place.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you want to be slightly fancier, you can use a btrfs subvolume and not have to worry about sizing partitions correctly.

[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

lvm2 noises intensify

[–] Reshirams_Rad_Slam@mastodo.neoliber.al 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@cadekat @Olgratin_Magmatoe doesn't ext4 have this feature or am I missing something?

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

I don't believe it does, but I could be wrong!