I’m at the point where I actually don’t want to reinstall anymore, because it’s a pain in the ass. I’m still on Ubuntu 20.04, even though the new LTS version has been out for more than a year by now. Ubuntu’s current direction doesn’t exactly give me an incentive to update, either, but to actually rectify that situation I’d need to reinstall as well.
If you ever do decide to jump, I recommend PopOS. Based on Ubuntu, no snaps.
I’d rather switch to Debian, TBH. Derivative distros (or rather double-derivative) like PopOS don’t feel all that safe to me.
Rolling release means I never have to reinstall linux. Unless it breaks and I don’t know how to fix it. So far It’s been 1 year on Arch.
A rolling release Linux distribution continuously provides updates as they become available, without the need for an OS re-installation to get the latest released version.
I had a perfectly working Debian desktop a year ago but I still wanted to try out fedora. I thought I found the perfect distro. Fast forward 3 different distros later. I’m now on MicroOS. I promise this will stay for a while. (Will it?)
Spending more time making an install script to put everything in the right place than using Linux itself
installing something goes slightly awry
system still runs fine but there are a couple empty read-only folders on the drive
“Oh no! My perfect system is BORKED!”
reinstall the os
