• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    That is idiotic, there is absolutely a reason to reinstall in some cases

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      8 days ago

      Not when you’re “stuck”, tho. You understand the problem, boot live system, fix it and learn from your mistakes. Like, my first reinstalls of arch were due to not understanding I can just chroot or pacstrap some packages I forgot, for example.

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      8 days ago

      Some times but not most, like Windows. macOS is the same way thanks to its *nix underpinnings. I honestly can’t remember a time I ever reinstalled the system to fix a problem.