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

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    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.

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        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?

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          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.

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      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.

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        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.