It's impressive how Linux distributions(*) seems to have some sort of entropy

We keep updating the OS, installing packages that we'll use for 5 minutes and forget to delete, making quick fixes to random issues that appear on a busy day... Until the point the computer start to get sluggish or even stop booting in a regular day (yeah, it happened to a friend 3 times)

That said, I'll re-flash a RPi OS image now

* It has been some years since I last used Windows, so I don't know how it works

@mairacanal I recall the half-life of Windows installations before WinXP was measured in weeks, best months :) And I've even skipped Windows ME.

@mairacanal hence immutable distros and pet containers.

@swick Yeah, I'm using Nix on my personal laptop, but I can't use Nix/Fedora Silverblue on the RPi 5 😞

@vbabka Christ, when talking about Windows ME, you made me remember Windows 8. How do I take this ugly image of my head now?

@mairacanal I always wish for https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#mount-a-subdirectory-instead-of-the-top-level-directory to make this kind of reinstall with easy revert easier. Obviously I know I can do this with A/B partitions and so on, but I don't want to manage multiple partitions.

@mairacanal haha, well, as far as getting things out of your head, you know the drill.
cc @ljs @lkundrak

@vbabka @mairacanal @lkundrak windows 8.1 sorted it all out anyway maira

@ljs @mairacanal @vbabka but you've got to boot it with /NOMMU

@lkundrak @ljs @mairacanal @vbabka never heard of this parameter, but it sounds like it could improve performance, so definitely something you should be doing!

@ptesarik @ljs @mairacanal @vbabka it also saves memory that would be wasted on bookkeeping so that more actual business can be done

@charles_melara

@mairacanal Maybe I'm the exception here because my env stays pretty stable over time in general terms, but I've been updating my Fedora installation without reinstalling for... almost 10 years OMG I'M FUCKING OLD 😱😭. Anyway, since Fedora 21 it seems, according to my notes. In that time I've migrated from i3 to Gnome, from X11 to Wayland and also moved the HDD to a new system: Intel/NVIDIA to AMD/AMD. 🤔 Maybe I should reinstall some day...

@rg3 Man, you are the luckiest guy I know

Also, you aren't getting old, you're getting wiser and turning into a Linux master