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  • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The day i had ads on my start page i immidiately uninstalled windows. I installed some linux distro its been like three years and ive finally settled on arch. it was hard but fuck ads on the start page and i feel smarter for it

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      1 year ago

      When you swap distros, how do you manage all your files and settings? Do you just save your files externally and start from scratch every time you change a distro?

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        1 year ago

        how do you manage all your files and settings?

        I don’t. I just use a separate drive for /home. And since I just prefer KDE no matter which system I’m using, all my files, settings, layouts, panels, etc are exactly the same whenever I switch out the OS.

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        1 year ago

        You can have a separate partition for your files so that you change only your OS. Even with windows. This way you’ll always keep your files and just need to customize your distro and reinstall your apps when you change between distros

      • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Yeah i kept my files on a seperate drive and just wiped the one with the os. for settings i was trying a different distro and desktop enviroment so those where always a bit different and i started from scratch