So, timeshift or NixOS?
nexussapphire, I did this with windows. Not so much macos until later versions started ballooning in size and being optimized for SSDs.
GreenLizzg6, reinstalling the os because im to lazy to clean the drives
just_another_person, deleted_by_author
the_q, Wow. What an unnecessarily meanspirited reply.
GreenLizzg6, please dont correct my english, i have no respect for this language
CYCLR, Understandable, have a nice day, sir.
plague_sapiens, 
Fedora Silverblue enters the chat :) Haven’t had a single hiccup so far. Only ublue spins are a pain in the butt imo. That’s why I configure everything by myself.
But I need to try NixOs soon
malockin, 
I’ve been running the same installation since 2012.
obligatory: “arch, btw”
callyral, 
i haven’t done that since i installed void linux. for some reason it just always “feels clean” to me
Immersive_Matthew, Clean install is more than feel safe. It is safe as it is a fresh start and will eliminate anything you missed that is not desirable.
Shatur, 
I never reinstall and always recover. Even when migrating from notebook to PC I just
dd-ed it and fixed fstab. My current system is 5 years old :)
backhdlp, (edited ) 
I reinstall on an estimated average of about monthly, distro hopping skewed that, it so should be around a bit less than bimonthly.
Asudox, 
I actually do that. It forces me to backup the most necessary things and throw away the rest, hence making the OS feel cleaner.
badbytes, The beauty of Linux, you can not upgrade, or upgrade, migrate, or reinstall. You can script the install, so it’s barebones+custom. Freedom is sweet.
Pacmanlives, Ah yes do the old snapper rollback of ZFS if that’s your bag baby
Lamb, Lowkey miss reinstalling for the clean feel, but EndeavourOS feels clean. The only issue I had was a leftover hidden Diablo 4 files which didn’t get removed when everything else got removed, I think from Lutris(?). Never touching Lutris again.
feef, (edited ) Remember the windows XP & HDD days when you would reinstall windows every new year so it ran smoother xd
Klaymore, (edited ) 
NixOS is great, you can even have it automatically reinstall and wipe your garbage with Impermanence lol
FiskFisk33, dotbot and a list of apps
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