I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?
To add to the other responses, after you recovered your stuff you could probably like moving to an immutable OS if you risk having power issues often, the transactions won’t be applied until everything is done so if anything happens during a transaction you’ll just remain at your last usable state
I had the same thought, but didn’t want to sound insensitive.
Saying “Your fault, using Arch for something important is a bad idea, you should have made a backup before”, while he fears all his important data is gone, would have been rude and very unhelpful.
But immutable distros solve these issues, yes. Since I switched to Silverblue I’ve never been more relaxed than ever. If something goes bad, I just select the old state and everything works, and updates never get applied incompletely like here.
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Note that this isn't about immutability but atomicity. Current immutable usually have that feature aswell but you don't need immutability to achieve it.
Yeah you're right, however searching "linux distro with atomic updates" doesn't seem to turn up much, as you say, in most cases the two features happen to come together and the distros that have them are mostly known for the former