Asudox,
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I actually do that. It forces me to backup the most necessary things and throw away the rest, hence making the OS feel cleaner.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t reinstall my system for 5 years

supercritical,
@supercritical@lemmy.world avatar

Sicko

shadearg,
@shadearg@lemmy.world avatar

Sicko Uᴘᴛɪᴍᴇ Wᴀʀʀɪᴏʀ

fuck_u_spez_in_particular,

You probably don’t have much on that system and/or you have a lot of discipline…

I did reinstall it after max 1 1/2 years (Arch btw.), either because of breakage, or weird behavior, or it was a chaotic dumpster fire.

At some point I discovered NixOS and was sold (and am still sold after 3 1/2 years using it). But it has a steep learning curve, though it certainly got better over that time.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Gentoo

fuck_u_spez_in_particular,

Not sure what you want to tell me exactly, as the above also applies to Gentoo ^^…

But I guess as a Gentoo user you have a lot of discipline then?

dan, (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

stares at Debian Bookworm VPS that’s been upgraded in-place and hasn’t been reformatted since Debian Etch (2007)

qyron,

How I understand that.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

For this particular VPS, I’ve moved provider several times, but every time I just use Clonezilla to clone the disk over the internet. Maybe I should do a fresh reinstall one day. There’s just so much random stuff running on it though.

feef, (edited )

Remember the windows XP & HDD days when you would reinstall windows every new year so it ran smoother xd

thedeadwalking4242,

Nixos is amazing just saying

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.

caseyweederman,

I thought I was alone

plague_sapiens,
@plague_sapiens@lemmy.world avatar

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

callyral,
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

i haven’t done that since i installed void linux. for some reason it just always “feels clean” to me

nexussapphire,

I did this with windows. Not so much macos until later versions started ballooning in size and being optimized for SSDs.

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.

backhdlp, (edited )
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I reinstall on an estimated average of about monthly, distro hopping skewed that, it so should be around a bit less than bimonthly.

FiskFisk33,

dotbot and a list of apps

auf,

nix-garbage-collector satisfied my needs

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