I have tried it on several distros before and it always causes problems because you get a million more packages intermingled with your already installed packages and sometimes you get conflicts or whatever. But it usually messes up my system. is there a safe way to have several desktops installed? or do you pretty much install a new one then remove the old one? thanks

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      What a mood. Im very guilty of not making backups and ruining setups only to have to start all over.

      I’m a fairly new linux user so this is bound to happen again lol.

        • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yup. Ive heard timeshift is good. Now i just gotta actually use it.

          Hows the experience with timeshift been when youve used it? Pretty easy to restore from?

          • MrTHXcertified@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Pretty easy, and it’s saved my bacon a handful of times. Most recently I restored from command line because I borked my display driver (legacy Nvidia user).

            Aside from that instance, everything else was done through the GUI.

      • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
        3·
        11 months ago

        oh dude i never do backups each time i start over from scratch its a brand new version of linux. the only “important” files (that I know of), i sync to the cloud.

        • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Haha i feel that man. I’m thinking of switching to Linux entirely and ditching Windows so i gotta get better at making backups otherwise its gonna be full reinstalls no stop.