Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)
    4•4 months ago

    An extra suggestion is to put the /home mountpoint on a separate volume ( if you’re comfortable doing so). This will make reinstalls easy, should you have need

    • @Landless2029
      3•4 months ago

      Yeah I do this currently for my Windows installs. But Windows would freak out on OS updates and reinstalls.

      I plan to redirect home on my next build

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
        1•4 months ago

        But Windows would freak out on OS updates and reinstalls

        Sheesh! I’m glad I’ve been on Linux so long to have forgotten that. It just doesn’t care, as long as you have it in fstab.

    • @CeeBee_Eh
      2•4 months ago

      My /home partition is the same one I setup almost 12 years ago. It’s been through multiple versions of Ubuntu, multiple Ubuntu reinstalls, a switch over to EndeavourOS, a reinstall of EndeavourOS, cloned to multiple drives as each one failed or was upgraded to a larger sized drive. But it’s the same exact /home data.