alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 6 months agohow's your week going, Beehawmessage-squaremessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareCass.Forest@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI keep considering putting Arch on my desktop (it currently has Ubuntu) but I feel like I would have to back up all my files. Is there a way to upgrade without backing up everything onto one of my hard drives? I’m just worried I’d miss something
minus-squareeveninghere@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoYou really should back up your system though
minus-squareCass.Forest@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoSo there’s no way of just telling the imager to skip a folder or two? Would switching over even be worth it?
minus-squareeveninghere@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoDonno what an imager is. Backup tools do have skip options.
minus-squareCass.Forest@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoBy imager, I just mean when installing an OS
minus-squareeveninghere@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoAh, the thing is that we don’t trust installers, more or less. Nobody should.
I keep considering putting Arch on my desktop (it currently has Ubuntu) but I feel like I would have to back up all my files. Is there a way to upgrade without backing up everything onto one of my hard drives? I’m just worried I’d miss something
You really should back up your system though
So there’s no way of just telling the imager to skip a folder or two? Would switching over even be worth it?
Donno what an imager is. Backup tools do have skip options.
By imager, I just mean when installing an OS
Ah, the thing is that we don’t trust installers, more or less. Nobody should.
Yeah that’s fair