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Should I wipe and reinstall my arch system? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having a single file config simplifies backups and that's tempting but I don't want to lose the arch wiki (I know some info is general to Linux but some isn't), AUR and other stuff that I miss once I lose it to an even more niche OS. I can try it on a virtual machine at some point

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Should I wipe and reinstall my arch system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This installation of arch is 2 years old at this point and there's nothing wrong with it and I want to do a clean reinstall to feel more fresh. But I've been constantly delaying it for a long time because I'm scared breaking something and also not having my laptop fully functional for even a day isn't a pleasant thought.

The benefits I think is being able to handpick which files I want to keep and which packages I would reinstall since the thought of how many files and packages are left over from when I momentarily needed them is really unpleasent. But this habit of reinstalling the OS as a cleanup method might be a bad one I've brought myself from the time I used windows which was justified back then but it may no longer be here since I can achieve what I want with a much more simple and less risky method

So am I being an idiot here? Or should I go for it?

Edit: I do have bleachbit but the benefit of a reinstall is that only system files, essential packages and my personal files are kept (actually copied out, formatted and copied back in for my files). These two aren't the same

Edit 2: Thank you everyone for their answers, it's clear that I don't have that much reason to wipe my system at the moment. It might be a better learning experience to look for orphan files and packages

The Duskbloods Reveal Trailer (FromSoftware) - Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Before this I was like "I'm not playing a single Nintendo exclusive game" because of the emulator situations Now I need to ask what's the state of switch emulators? I still hate Nintendo but I don't want to miss out on this

Rain World: The Watcher DLC out today in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I heard James say it will be released in parts and finalizing with the console release. So I will be waiting for that while staying away from spoilers

Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025 - 1.8 Update Coming Soon! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Those are all awesome but for playing Pokémon specifically I had some fun playing ROM hacks as really good ones exist. Currently waiting for a good NDS hack as gen 4 games have been decompiled and progress is being made twords feature rich NDS hacks like we already have for GBA

Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your view on this franchise is very surface level

Moon Studios (Ori, No Rest for the Wicked) goes 'fully independent' in aftermath of Private Division closure in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Ori IP belongs to Microsoft so this means no more ori games from moon studios

Avowed review by Fully Ramblomatic in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Never played avowed. But acknowledgeing the shortcomings and being honest? Based Yahtzee as always

Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Nintendo playing whac-a-mole with these forks

“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is ublock origin blocking Google's AI? Because I often use google along side searxng and I swear to god I haven't seen it once (and hope to not see it)

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I'm (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Favorite retro games? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Super Mario War and Pocket Tanks

In Iran we always pirate games (except PlayStation games) because US sanctions has banned trades with Iran. Back when I was a kid instead of buying CDs with one game I bought packages which had 100 smaller games and I didn't buy often because I couldn't buy games on my own. There are some famous ones among these 600 games (I bought 6 CDs over the years) like peggle, plants vs zombies, chicken invaders, and some others. Despite having fun with many more games, these are the ones I remember the most. Despite not getting a lot of chances to play computer games with others these games where the most fun to play with others

Android games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/android/

Playing Tunic first time in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The other comment said everything that needs to be. Just note that the west bell may look close but the way to it is anything but short compared to the east bell. Keep exploring and be careful of spoilers on internet

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Closer number keys (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For over 2 years my only problem when using vim is how hard to reach the number keys are. They make jumping between lines easier but despite my attempts to get used to the far number keys, some are still not easy to reach like 6. I only have ideas of what would an ideal solution could look like but I don't know how to execute them. One is to make caps lock some kind of modifier which turns home row keys into number keys, but because of the limitations of terminal emulators even if I turn caps lock into an obscure modifier (in kde settings) I won't be able to use it in neovim. I would appreciate any ideas that help. I'm using kde plasma with wayland under arch linux.

Edit: please no mention of split keyboards. Even if I can afford them I prefer not getting used to something I have to carry additionally with my laptop

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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