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		whatshisface on July 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve Steam Deck The problem with Arch is that Arch needs to be tinkered with when Arch wants to be tinkered with, not when you want to spend an evening messing with your OS configuration. "This evening I want to learn about X," becomes "this evening I am learning about the linux userspace ecosystem," for every value of X.

xyproto on July 15, 2021 [–]

Not if you have a filesystem with snapshots.

IX-103 on July 16, 2021 | [–]

I was going to say that idea would have helped so much back when I ran Gentoo, but then I remembered how often my 40 GB hard drive was full.

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