• Rikudou_SageA
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    1311 months ago

    If you used NixOS, you could move your whole OS there!

    • @minorsecond@lemm.ee
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      611 months ago

      Seriously thinking about nuking my years old Gentoo installation to try Nixos at this point.

      • @tool@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Could always just get another drive instead of tearing it down, storage is pretty cheap these days.

        • @minorsecond@lemm.ee
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          211 months ago

          True. I’ll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

          • @tool@lemmy.world
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            111 months ago

            I’ll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

            Or just leave it where it is and mount it there too ¯\(ツ)

            • @minorsecond@lemm.ee
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              111 months ago

              Well my home is on my spare drive currently lol. I guess I could just create another btrfs subvol alongside @home and use that as root.

                • @minorsecond@lemm.ee
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                  111 months ago

                  I’d normally agree with you lol, but I got laid off recently so I have to make due with what I have for now.

                  The obvious answer that escaped me for whatever reason was just to create a VirtualBox VM. I already have it installed so why not.

      • Rikudou_SageA
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        811 months ago

        The whole OS is configured by a single file (or subfiles you include from the main file) - every package and setting can be there. Meaning you just move the file to a new OS, run a single command, and you have the exactly same OS.