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0 pointsdoubled1121y ago0 comments

Arch is easy to install. I just wrote 200 or so lines of shell scripts to bootstrap it and hand the rest of the setup over to Ansible in a chroot.

/s in case

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motaforever20191y ago

You joke but this is what I have on 3-4 machines that I maintain (a laptop and desktop each for work and personal). And it has saved my butt at least four to five in last 6 years when my drives failed.

While 4 to 5 times doesn't seem a lot, I was able to get back to full speed within two hours of my drives failing resulting in almost zero downtime.

doubled112OP1y ago

I wasn’t knocking the setup, it is how I configure my machines as well.

I treat my machines as if they were disposable. Ready to be wiped and reloaded or forgotten on the bus at any moment.

Just the part where I refer to it as easy was supposed to be sarcastic, I suppose. I don’t expect everybody to want to put that effort out.

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