Whaddya talking about I nuke my shit all the time.
The whole point of doing a separate partition for your home directory is to do just that… The fuck is this even supposed to mean.
Uh… I don’t have a separate partition for /home. I have a separate zfs filesystem for it though. If I run into issues, I can restore from snapshot and not affect it.
If you got a problem, reinstall and do the same stuff again, you’ll almost certainly get the same problem again. So, no, it’s only productive if you are in a fucked-up environment where changes bring more breakage than they fix.
It’s useful if you don’t plan to do the same thing again, though. So if you are just trying random stuff, yeah, go ahead.
I reinstall at the drop of a hat. Pretty much any excuse to try another distro or configuration I was uncertain about.
If the issue doesn’t resolve itself, reinstall, that works for me as a catch all solution because I use Linux like a Chromebook, web browsing.
I just rollback my snapper.
My brother reinstalled his windows more often than I ran “zypper dup”
Ehhh all my important files are sync’d to my NAS. I have a script that just apt installs everything I normally use. Sometimes it’s just faster than troubleshooting. Usually if I’m about to do something whacky I clone my disk and use the clone. If it works it’s my new primary, if it doesn’t nothing lost.
I literally had an official support person tell me to reinstall Ubuntu to get a specific app running.
