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I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Timeshift will save you soooooo much pain. Set it up to auto backup a daily image. You can also manually create as many snapshots as you want.

Timeshift has turned system-destroying mistakes I've made into mere 5-10 minute inconveniences. You can use it in the command line, so even if you blow up your whole desktop environment/window manager, you can still restore back to a known gold state.

I create a snapshot before any major updates or customizations.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Had no idea it existed, let alone already built in. Got my first backup squared away with almost 0 effort.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Glad I could help! I wish I knew about it when I first started with Linux.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Ill give it a week or 2 till I need to use one. Lol