<story><title>My transition to an Ubuntu workstation</title><url>https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/my-transition-to-an-ubuntu-workstation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarcScott</author><text>&amp;gt; Even when I was running Windows, I would wipe my computer every few months. I kept a &amp;quot;Backup Image&amp;quot; handy with all my settings already installed. I&amp;#x27;ve spent far too many hours trying to undo damage I&amp;#x27;ve done to my systems by installing random software from the internet onto my workstation; I&amp;#x27;ve come to value the option of resetting my computer to a known, healthy state immensely.&lt;p&gt;I often thought I was the only one. On Windows, macOS and even Ubuntu I was reinstalling my OS at least three or four times a year. I had install scripts and GitHub repos designed to reconfigure my machine after each install. The process always took a full day.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m on NixOS. I have three .nix text files, .emacs, .bashrc and that&amp;#x27;s about all I need to backup in order to clone my environment on any machine.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also stopped reinstalling my OS all the time, as I always know my machine&amp;#x27;s state, just by looking at those few files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>I was puzzled by the article authors statement on this. My main daily machine is Windows 10. It&amp;#x27;s been running the same &amp;#x27;copy&amp;#x27; of Windows 10 since late 2016, and has gone through all the major updates since then, and has had many applications installed and removed on it since then. Office has gone from v2010 thru v2013 to Office 365 (effectively v2019), and I&amp;#x27;m always playing with new software. The machine still runs perfectly fine, with no strange problems, errors or slowdowns.&lt;p&gt;To rebuild it to the state it currently is, would take me several days of installing and configuring, for very little benefit. Imho, there is no reason to reinstall your OS every few months.</text></comment>
<story><title>My transition to an Ubuntu workstation</title><url>https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/my-transition-to-an-ubuntu-workstation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarcScott</author><text>&amp;gt; Even when I was running Windows, I would wipe my computer every few months. I kept a &amp;quot;Backup Image&amp;quot; handy with all my settings already installed. I&amp;#x27;ve spent far too many hours trying to undo damage I&amp;#x27;ve done to my systems by installing random software from the internet onto my workstation; I&amp;#x27;ve come to value the option of resetting my computer to a known, healthy state immensely.&lt;p&gt;I often thought I was the only one. On Windows, macOS and even Ubuntu I was reinstalling my OS at least three or four times a year. I had install scripts and GitHub repos designed to reconfigure my machine after each install. The process always took a full day.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m on NixOS. I have three .nix text files, .emacs, .bashrc and that&amp;#x27;s about all I need to backup in order to clone my environment on any machine.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also stopped reinstalling my OS all the time, as I always know my machine&amp;#x27;s state, just by looking at those few files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>If you want this and still want the polish of Fedora + Gnome, try SilverBlue - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;silverblue.fedoraproject.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;silverblue.fedoraproject.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Built on Project Atomic (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.projectatomic.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.projectatomic.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) and OSTree (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fedoraproject.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Changes&amp;#x2F;WorkstationOstree&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fedoraproject.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Changes&amp;#x2F;WorkstationOstree&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;You can achieve the exact same thing. e.g. here - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discussion.fedoraproject.org&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;minimal-or-custom-silverblue-ostree-images&amp;#x2F;1574&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discussion.fedoraproject.org&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;minimal-or-custom-sil...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>