Poll.... How often do you reinstall your computer?

MurphCID · Post by **MurphCID** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:33 am

old_noob wrote: ⤴Sun Jun 19, 2022 5:35 pm

That is funny!

Marie SWE · Post by **Marie SWE** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:54 pm

Termy wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:33 pm [...]
I wanted to put out a warning for those who don't wanna read tired rambling nonsense.

nothing about this poll was written in stone as I only was a bit curious.. My start post was short and therefore open for interpretation as we all in general do have different views on things in life.

I leave the offtopic part now.
around 2years seems to be the answer.

MurphCID · Post by **MurphCID** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:50 am

I remember the old days of Windows where when things got slow and glitchy, the standard advice was: "Format and re-install". That was the only way to fix the issues. I re-install Linux Mint when I have made a bad decision to try another distro. But for the most part once installed, it stays until a new version of Mint is released.

151tom · Post by **151tom** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 12:38 pm

Reinstall when a new release comes out or when I've busted the current installed version so bad that a new install is the only solution and happy to say that hasn't happened many years since I stopped tinkering with my Linux installs.

gittiest personITW · Post by **gittiest personITW** » Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:27 pm

Aiming for every Mint odd version.
21, 23, 25 etc

antikythera · Post by **antikythera** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 4:39 am

Well technically I did a reinstall this morning for the first time in ages. I took an image of LMDE5 first so I can put it back but am currently running LM Cinnamon 20.3 with kernel 5.15 and nvidia 510 proprietary because I wanted to check something. There were no issues installing either the kernel or proprietary blobs so it looks like the bug may have been resolved with that now. system specs gives the full version numbers, link in my signature below.

Marie SWE · Post by **Marie SWE** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:55 am

I did install Mint 20.3 cinnamon yesterday......... on my lab-laptop to test out a legacy thingi.
So now i can join the mint club for a while.

Hoser Rob · Post by **Hoser Rob** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:13 am

Marie SWE wrote: ⤴Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:54 pm
Termy wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:33 pm [...]
I wanted to put out a warning for those who don't wanna read tired rambling nonsense.
nothing about this poll was written in stone as I only was a bit curious.. My start post was short and therefore open for interpretation as we all in general do have different views on things in life.

I leave the offtopic part now.
around 2years seems to be the answer.

37 results is hardly a valid sample size, y'know.

Marie SWE · Post by **Marie SWE** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:16 am

Hoser Rob wrote: ⤴Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:13 am
Marie SWE wrote: ⤴Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:54 pm
Termy wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:33 pm [...]
I wanted to put out a warning for those who don't wanna read tired rambling nonsense.
nothing about this poll was written in stone as I only was a bit curious.. My start post was short and therefore open for interpretation as we all in general do have different views on things in life.

I leave the offtopic part now.
around 2years seems to be the answer.
37 results is hardly a valid sample size, y'know.

yes I know, but it's better than only one vote..

ivar · Post by **ivar** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 11:51 am

MurphCID wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:50 am I remember the old days of Windows where when things got slow and glitchy, the standard advice was: "Format and re-install". That was the only way to fix the issues.

Got around 400 pcs running win10 at work, some of the oldest are 6 years old. Old windows installs really gets slow and clunky after a while , a reinstall still works nicely for getting them usable again.
Havent seen anything resembling that gradual degradation on my computers running e.g Mint.

MurphCID · Post by **MurphCID** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:25 pm

ivar wrote: ⤴Sat Jun 25, 2022 11:51 am
MurphCID wrote: ⤴Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:50 am I remember the old days of Windows where when things got slow and glitchy, the standard advice was: "Format and re-install". That was the only way to fix the issues.
Got around 400 pcs running win10 at work, some of the oldest are 6 years old. Old windows installs really gets slow and clunky after a while , a reinstall still works nicely for getting them usable again.
Havent seen anything resembling that gradual degradation on my computers running e.g Mint.

Nope I have never seen that issue with Mint, or any Linux distro for that matter.

rossdv8 · Post by **rossdv8** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:53 pm

Nope I have never seen that issue with Mint, or any Linux distro for that matter.

I think I might have once or twice - when I was down to my last ten MB of drive space or something

ivar · Post by **ivar** » Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:32 am

^ running totally out of disk space will make most every OS choke a little

Valsodar · Post by **Valsodar** » Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:10 pm

In the nearly 4 years I was using Mint, I used to reinstall it a few times per month.

In the 3 years and 2 months I'm using Arch, I've reinstalled it only 4-5 times. And even that is a last resort. I usually make a backup of a fully working system and if something messes up, I simply restore from the backup in under 2 minutes. If it happens that after the restoration it won't update because the image is too old, only then I'll reinstall it.

SteveR · Post by **SteveR** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:47 am

My reinstalls have been erratic. Basically, when I have made one of those catastrophic boo-boos. But, as a side-note concerning reinstalling software, I have taken to writing down add-on programs/utilities/PPAs that are not part of the basic install process. Also configuration files. Makes re-creating your customizations much easier.

rossdv8 · Post by **rossdv8** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:06 pm

SteveR wrote: ⤴Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:47 am My reinstalls have been erratic. Basically, when I have made one of those catastrophic boo-boos. But, as a side-note concerning reinstalling software, I have taken to writing down add-on programs/utilities/PPAs that are not part of the basic install process. Also configuration files. Makes re-creating your customizations much easier.

You might be intrested in this Ask UBUNTU forum post:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/9135/ho ... d-packages

I think it should work for ordinary Mint unless you are using LMDE

A few questions here should get an answer - in fact it might be worth starting a thread to discuss it?

Part way down the page it discusses a Backup program called Deja-dup to save your /home stuff to local or external media or cloud.
I imagine Mint Backup or Foxclone could be used instead.

The whole discussion has some useful bits (and warnings) in various places.

manyroads · Post by **manyroads** » Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:12 pm

I typically run 3 laptops (these days). I seem to do about 10 installs (reinstalls) per month.

Some of the installs are distro hopping related, others hardware tweaking, some are due to my simply wanting to see how many weird things I can do before everything crashes.

MurphCID · Post by **MurphCID** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 10:14 am

I think I am done with that, I will stick to Mint 21 (and updates) on my two road warriors, LMDE 5 on two, and then Fedora Cinnamon on the new Darter Pro. I think I am distro tested out.

BrianI · Post by **BrianI** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:57 am

It depends.

If I am in a distro hopping phase, then several times a month.

If not, then I try to avoid doing a reinstall, except when it is absolutely necessary.

However I am very tired of distro hopping, and watching talking head linux review videos on youtube, and then getting an inkling of trying something different. Then becoming unsatisfied, then trying another distro. Especially since I'd much rather use my system for photo editing etc, rather than wasting time trying different distros.

I always find that Linux Mint gives a nice experience, nothing too fancy, (nor endless preferences for your settings for your settings options like KDE), but just quietly lets you get on with your work.

MurphCID · Post by **MurphCID** » Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:46 am

BrianI wrote: ⤴Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:57 am It depends.

If I am in a distro hopping phase, then several times a month.

If not, then I try to avoid doing a reinstall, except when it is absolutely necessary.

However I am very tired of distro hopping, and watching talking head linux review videos on youtube, and then getting an inkling of trying something different. Then becoming unsatisfied, then trying another distro. Especially since I'd much rather use my system for photo editing etc, rather than wasting time trying different distros.

I always find that Linux Mint gives a nice experience, nothing too fancy, (nor endless preferences for your settings for your settings options like KDE), but just quietly lets you get on with your work.

I agree completely at this point, I have tried so many distros, and I always keep coming home to Mint.

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