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What tips for initial setup? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
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I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS about a year ago. Now that 26.04 is out, I was planning to upgrade, but instead I think I'm going to wipe and re-install from scratch. Does anyone have any tips or tweaks they recommend for new installs? Things like, do or don't encrypt the drive during the install process, make an administrator account separate from your regular user account? I already plan to install the Flatpak repo and the Gnome Software Center.

Thanks!

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago

Set up some kind of system restore/snapshotting solution.

If your OS breaks, you can just roll back to an earlier state.

Others will have to chime in, I'm on an atomic distro that does it easily and by design, but every time people were arguing about wheter atomic distros suck or not, the counterargument was always "but rollback is super easy nowadays", I just don't remember the software used for it.

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