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@savvywolf@pawb.social · 6d ago

I'd recommend using an atomic distro. Then if you get shot to pieces you can roll back to a good state.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social · Apr 10, 2026

They aren't available as regular boot options, so you need to use timeshift itself to switch to them. It provides a cli though so it can be used in cases where you've broken your x server.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social · Apr 08, 2026

I don't know how available it is for other distros, but Mint has a gui tool called Timeshift that allows you to take and restore snapshots.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social · Apr 07, 2026

Snapshots seem an ideal tool for the job. It won't replace a full backup system, but as long as the cost of failure (such as you mistyping a command and nuking the disk's partition data or something) is only a few hours of OS reconfiguration rather than losing priceless family photos, it should work. I use btrfs snapshots on my system. When I'm about to do something "risky" (e.g. trying out kde or cosmic) I take a snapshot beforehand. Then when I want to go back, I just restore the snapshot and reboot. For /home, there won't be a lot of OS configuration there, and if it's a burner machine you probably won't have much personalisation done on it. However, if you want to backup configuration there, look into a dotfile manager.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social · Mar 31, 2026

I've been using Mint+Home Manager on my main desktop and NixOS on other devices.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 19, 2026

Isn’t it Chromium based and thus subject to whatever Google forces them to do with adblocking? I don’t mean to kinkshame and people can use their own favourite browsers, but Firefox has good support for all three of those areas (adblocking is an extension though).

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in programmer_humor · Mar 11, 2026

Vibe management? Is that what they mean by “edge” computing?

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 05, 2026

Semitransparent backgrounds for terminals are the worst. I don’t mean to kinkshame, but it, imo, should not be a default.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 05, 2026

I think the whole “XYZ Distro is faster!” arguments are overblown. Most distros will be fast enough on reasonably modern hardware, and any performance gains will usually come with compromises and/or lots of tinkering. Generally speaking a standard arch install (that is, you’ve not manually configured anything) will be roughly the same speed as a more beginner friendly distros like Mint and Fedora (which is still more lightweight than Windows). To answer the question in the title: Yes you’ll survive the CLI. Just give yourself time to learn the fundamentals and treat it as learning a programming language. More user friendly distros generally don’t expect you to use the CLI, which is part of the reason they are recommended.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

My condolences - I’m in the UK as well and wouldn’t wish that on anyone. If I may offer an alternate perspective: Politicians don’t actually care about any of this, they just want votes. California’s system allows them to say “Look, we solved child safety!” without having to deal with people complaining about privacy. If there’s an existing system in place, it’s easier for politicians to say “we already solved this!” and ignore those voices. It also puts the guilt on parents. If this system in place, and you complain about your child seeing tiddy online, the question is going to be “why didn’t you set the age correctly then?”. … Of course this might be me just being optimistic. I really hope we, as a species, grow out of this new age puritanism and government overreach.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

It’d be stronger than that, since kids shouldn’t have admin rights on their pcs and couldn’t claim to be over 18.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

Sure. But at that point distros can just say “no use in California lol” and enjoy the free market share from disgruntled totally-not-californian Windows users.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

I can see the slippery slope argument, however it overlooks the fact that countries/states are already willing to implement the non-privacy systems. If these systems take off, it will give privacy advocates the ability to point at California’s system and say “look, they have a system that is as effective as the strong assurance stuff but without the people sending you angry emails.” I see it as almost a “reverse slippry slope”. A way for people to push for less strict verification.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

Agreed, but at this point I think it’s worth taking what we can get.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

Isn’t this an example of pushing for standardisation of parental controls?

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

Does the age verification stuff matter for this? Microsoft, if they wanted to, could already lock down systems in this way.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

This is perhaps a controversial statement from someone who is fed up with all this age verification stuff, but having the user age be set on account creation (without providing ID or anything dumb like that) doesn’t seem that bad. It just feels like a way to standardise parental controls. Instead of having to roll their own age verification stuff, software like Discord can rely on the UserAccountStorage value. If it were possible to plug into a browser in a standard, privacy conscious way, it also reduces the need for third party parental control browser extensions, which I imagine can be a bit sketchy. OSes collect and expose language and locale information anyway. What harm is age bands in addition to that?

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

I like having a system I know the internals of and can control. But honestly, nowadays the software quality of Windows is just… Bad.

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@savvywolf@pawb.social in linux · Mar 04, 2026

Instead, AerynOS leans into a tightly integrated, curated desktop experience. This is (as far as I can tell) the unique feature the article touts. Even though that fits Mint, Ubuntu and I think Fedora.

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