Why does Linux Mint include Timeshift when the main developer doesn't have the time to maintain it?

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Zergling
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Re: Why does Linux Mint include Timeshift when the main developer doesn't have the time to maintain it?

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Explains why TimeShift is a complete POS...

I only installed it to do the Mint 20 upgrade, I've removed it since.
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Re: Why does Linux Mint include Timeshift when the main developer doesn't have the time to maintain it?

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Zergling wrote: ⤴Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:46 pm I only installed it to do the Mint 20 upgrade, I've removed it since.
You installed it so if something went wrong for whatever reason you could revert back to where you were but you say it's a pos?
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Re: Why does Linux Mint include Timeshift when the main developer doesn't have the time to maintain it?

Post by Rocky Bennett »

Zergling wrote: ⤴Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:46 pm Explains why TimeShift is a complete POS...

I only installed it to do the Mint 20 upgrade, I've removed it since.


I do not understand this post. Could please explain what this post means.
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Re: Why does Linux Mint include Timeshift when the main developer doesn't have the time to maintain it?

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Rocky Bennett wrote: ⤴Wed Jul 22, 2020 6:18 pm
Zergling wrote: ⤴Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:46 pm Explains why TimeShift is a complete POS...

I only installed it to do the Mint 20 upgrade, I've removed it since.

I do not understand this post. Could please explain what this post means.
He simply installed time shift once to make a system snapshot before upgrading from linux mint 19 to 20. This way he could restore the snapshot of his system when it was linux mint 19 just in case the upgrade made his operating system inoperable.

Once the upgrade went as planned, he decided to uninstall it because he didn't like it.
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Re: Why does Linux Mint include Timeshift when the main developer doesn't have the time to maintain it?

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I use Clonezilla to clone my Mint partition. It has alwAys worked and saves me many times.
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