Our new version of our configuration service Tomte (2.33.0.) brings a new module called text-boot to the users, which implements the correction of a bug when switching to TUXEDO OS 3 and Plasma 6.
Accidentally updated my entire system yesterday (instead of just my #Flatpak apps which I normally do for regular updates), which also updated #KDEPlasma to version 6. The first exp was broken, no doubt, since it defaults to #Wayland, which isn't great for my #NVIDIA GPU (the entire desktop was slow to a crawl, like it's being rendered using my CPU). Even after switching to #X11 tho, while that slowness quickly disappeared, I found that there are some widgets I rely on that are broken on Plasma 6, and even my Plank dock wasn't behaving properly (i.e. not identifying existing, open windows).
Thankfully, years ago when I first moved to #Linux full time, I had set up #Timeshift to create a system backup every midnight and every pre-update in case an update goes wrong (like in this case). Never had the need for it, and never bothered to test if the backups it made would work fine, until yesterday. Launched the Timeshift app on my desktop (didn't even need a safe/live environment), selected one of the recent backups, click the restore option and it was done in a second and prompted me to restart. Restarted my PC, and I was then back in my perfectly stable system on Plasma 5.27 like nothing happened <3
So please, for system backup purposes - use Timeshift! For personal file (user home directory) backups, use a #Borg based backup solution such as #Vorta (which I also absolutely love). They absolutely will save your ass someday!
Another small victory for a #linux#noob lol... Couldn't log in due to the full partition... Didn't think about #timeshift eating disc space like crazy...
...but...problem sorted and I feel like climbing #PendleHill :)
In other words: I could neither remove software nor upgrade.
So … worst case scenario.
Luckily #KaisenLinux is using #btrfs as file system. I was able to boot from a snapshot (as Live environment) and restore from known-good state using #timeshift! Phew.
Finally got Timeshift on Linux to do a system restore when I really needed it
I’ve had issues in the past when testing out restores with Timeshift. But today I really needed it as I did some over-aggressive pacman optimisations yesterday (mass deleting circular dependencies was not a good idea) and my system was spitting out SSL errors ...continues
I have #linux#fedora 38 and I've installed it with full disk encryption and #BTRFS. I use #timeshift to do some backups, my question is:
What if I screw my system and can't even turn it on to restore a timeshift snapshot?
I saw a video of a guy installing an app (forgot the name) that could add snapshots items to the #grub, so I could recover before initializing the OS. I tried but without success (he did on #arch in the video).