On 12/21/2011 10:06 PM, Fedora User wrote:
I cannot believe that we are at F16. I clearly recall RH9 to FC-1. But I digress. I know that others have said this in the past. I just thought that I would reinforce the notion that clean installs remove a large number of annoying problems that persist through upgrades. Moreover, it is refreshing to start with a clean desktop; something that has become a palette for the way we think and do things. It has been awhile and I was unaware of the many advances that developers have made in installation. It has never been this easy, intuitive and fast. I was in a Walgreens the other day and picked up a bunch of Sony DVD's for 40 cents each. There was a time when burning a DVD through Linux was a considerable challenge. Now it is routine --- and cheap. The perfect excuse for backing up the accumulated bytes; It makes you think what you really want to retain. Then wiping the HD clean.
I have a 2Tb dirve on a backup server that I 'regularly' rsync my ~/data stuff to. Considering that I have 20Gb to move, that would be a lot of DVD swapping.
But to each their own. Just remember to backup. I lost my daily backup drive a couple weeks ago, but had my weekly drive (that is kept in a firebox and taken out and mounted for the backup 'each' sunday) so layers upon layers does it.
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