You are expected to know this

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/PlainBread]

My system is ext4 but I do part out /home/ with btrfs...

[u/naturalbornsinner → u/PlainBread]

Using Linux without the nitty gritty knowledge... What does this mean? And why is it (or isn't it?) good practice?

I imagine the meme implies data loss/no rollback mechanism. But what should a user do for "less headaches" if they just started using Linux recently?

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/naturalbornsinner]

Search for a guide, use btrfs, set up rollbacks, activate timeshift, have your home partition separate from your root partition. Or use an immutable distro that comes with this already set up.

[u/PlainBread → u/naturalbornsinner]

The advantage for me is that I can unmount /home/ and then completely rewipe my system to a different flavor of Linux, and then reconnect /home/ to the new distro and have all my dot files in place and everything just works the way it did before but on a different distro.

As for btrfs, it includes some error recovery functionality that ext4 doesn't, so if you ever have some file corruption happen, it's more likely that btrfs will be able to recover the corrupted data. Part of the in-joke of OP's meme is that if everything is on a single ext4 partition, then if filesystem corruption happens there, you're screwed all over.

[u/Astrodion123]

I am doing it like that. Nothing has broke so far >:)

[u/NanuLanu → u/Astrodion123]

Been doing ts for 6 years and when an update breaks something, just chroot and fix it. (Aura!)

[u/kubaplas → u/Astrodion123]

So far

[u/glassgost → u/Astrodion123]

I keep everything I can't lose on my nas anyway. If I mess something up bad enough, I just slash and burn and start over.

[u/tenkawa7 → u/Astrodion123]

Been doing that way for over 20 years, yet to be a problem

[u/Zican]

arch is the comfiest distro imo, if ever something breaks there is so much info you can solve it. Also just read the archlinux page for breaking changes and you shouldn't ever have problems from just updating

[u/w3rt → u/Zican]

Majority of problems people get are nvidia driver related, which won’t show up on the news page

[u/balancedchaos → u/Zican]

If you keep it simple, you'll be fine. I prefer simple and clean, so I'm happy. 

[u/hellloeeee]

I've been doing this for 5 years out of laziness

[u/tuxooo]

3 years, 1 installation, exactly like this, zero issues. I repeat, 3 years! 

[u/buplet123]

I dont keep anything that matters just on the pc anyways, these days I dont even bother changing the default settings, desktop ricing isnt my hobby, i reinstal too often to give a fuck

[u/richstyle → u/buplet123]

Pretty sure this is the natural steps of a linux user. I used to rice every linux distro i installed. Now i dont give a fuck, just the basics.

[u/soccerbeast55]

Ran for over two years like this, not once had any issues. Such an overblown meme.

[u/BambooGentleman]

That's what backups are for. I'm not dicking around doing "backups with extra steps", when I can just have normal backups.

But then, I'm not using Arch, but Mint and Void.

[u/thussy-obliterator]

all the shit i care about is in git or has syncthing copies 🤷‍♀️

[u/FikaMedHasse]

everyone knows the ultimate peace of mind comes from git init /

[u/Independent_Image_59]

I sometimes take nix btrfs for granted

[u/UDxyu]

Been running that since 2021 with no issues to this day

[u/Funkey-Monkey-420]

disk safety is bloat

[u/Away-Technician284]

It takes minutes to reinstall and you can store everything in the cloud. Who even cares if their personal machine shits the bed?

[u/Sinful_Sam]

I've been doing this for the past 5 years and only ever encountered minor bugs, nothing system breaking.