On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, fred roller wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I am inclined to agree, very often having a drive with a live image
laying around helps.
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Bernardo Sulzbach
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+1
and since I keep the important data files on a seperate partition the live usb is my recovery. Just
reinstall. Back up in usually <30 minutes; minus the eye candy.
I didn't used to to that but it has saved my bacon a couple of times, especially now that hobbyists like me end up playing around with EFI partitions and such. It's getting all very non-intuitive.
I went out and bought one of those 10-pack 16-gig flash drive packs for 40 bucks, and a little flash-drive zip-up pouch, and keep a distro on each one -- gparted, fedora, manjaro, kali, mint, and tails, and a couple for data through a second usb port.
As much as I hear (and say) that "linux is linux," it turns out that, for me, different distros are better for different software. Fedora 23, for instance, is more R (the statistical package) friendly than Linux Mint, at least when I try to use it.
One of my colleagues had a cow when he had problems accessing a file on his Windows box. He asked me for help, thinking I would do some sort of Windows magic. Instead, I just booted it up in linux and copied the files.
Which, as a complete off topic thing, I didn't understand. He was running Windows 10, which I *thought* was encrypted by default. But when I booted the box up in Manjaro, everything was sitting right there. I didn't think it would work but I didn't want to spend an hour clicking buttons in Windows, so I tried it on a lark.
billo
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