2026-04-22 21:40 UTC
@nethad When I use Linux, I constantly worry about losing all of my user data because I’m going to have to wipe the system and completely reinstall everything at any moment because something is going to randomly break. Why? Because that was my experience repeatedly with Windows and Linux over decades.
I never fear that when using macOS and using Backblaze.
I want my laptop to be vegan in a reverse devops sense: "pets, not cattle"
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@nethad@swiss.social 2026-04-23 18:38
@Jeremiah I see. Janky UI should be a thing of the past if you use any recent distro with the Wayland compositor. Battery life depends on the laptop, but it has improved a lot overall. Mic/headphones stuff is smooth for me under Gnome, it remembers preferences for my USB mic that I plug in for meetings and switches over. Paths: a bit too vague for me to answer :) I just backup my whole home folder, it's all in there.
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@nethad@swiss.social 2026-04-23 18:39
@Jeremiah can also recommend Deja Dup for backups: https://apps.gnome.org/en/DejaDup/ although I myself use "restic" on the CLI directly these days. I'd give it a try in general, a lot happened in Linux land since 2016 :)