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lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:29 AM

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title says it all. yesterday i was installing some programs through apt but silly me didn't bother reading the additional software that would be installied with it so now i'm no longer on xfce haha. plz help, i hate gnome TwT

low kindle Sep 30, 2024, 9:33 AM

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lost frigate title says it all. yesterday i was installing some programs through apt but sill...

Do you have a timeshift you can revert to?

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:34 AM

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i have one from like a few months prior

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why do you ask?am i gonna have to manualy move all of my filesand settings onto this older timeshift

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:36 AM

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You shouldn't have to move all your files at least unless of course you set Timeshift up like that.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:36 AM

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how can i check if its setup that way

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:36 AM

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It should tell you which folders you are backing up exactly, by default I don't think your home folder is included.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:38 AM

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this is the latest i got

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:38 AM

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high sigil It should tell you which folders you are backing up exactly, by default I don't ...

tell me where

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:39 AM

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Surely you can work that out? I do not use Timeshift as I have no need for it.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:40 AM

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i don't even know what a mouse cursor is lmao

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sorry if this came off as troll behavior

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:41 AM

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If you open Timeshift, it should let you either inspect the backup schedule and/or display what folders it is including/excluding.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:41 AM

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i found it

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and indeed, i have timeshift open

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are those settings good or bad

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:41 AM

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See? It is not including your home folder (assuming your user/home folder is under /home/vincius)

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:42 AM

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yea thats it

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:42 AM

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Your last backup is from 20 days ago. Is that before you installed GNOME?

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:42 AM

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indeed

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i installed gnome yesterday i think

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:42 AM

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Then you can probably do what Fusion suggests and roll back "safely"

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Assuming you did not tweak any major settings etc in those 20 days

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:44 AM

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i have no recollection of tweaking any settings like that

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:44 AM

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The reality is that, there is a way you can remove GNOME from your system through uninstalling it and associated apps, but removing every last trace, sorting out the greeter (since I'm guessing you switched to GDM too) etc is probably more effort than trying that first.

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If it works? When you boot up + log in to your session in XFCE, you trigger a manual Timeshift snapshot since then you know you have working state.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:45 AM

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i see

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is timeshift safe?

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:46 AM

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Relatively.

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Is it as safe as following the 321 backup policy and having separate yearly copies stored on special tapes in an underground bunker? No.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:47 AM

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i know i may have already asked this but are you sure my filesystem won't revert to an older state

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i really dont want to lose my precious files 🙏

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:47 AM

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It will, that's what you're wanting it to do.

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Your user files however, that should be OK.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:48 AM

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so i won't lose the docs i've been working on in the past 20 days?

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:48 AM

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Shouldn't, unless you are storing them on separate disks that are not excluded from your Timeshift backup.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:48 AM

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i have just one disk

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:48 AM

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If you're worried, create a separate backup of those docs you know you need on a thumb drive or smth.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:49 AM

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good idea

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lemme see if i have a thumb drive laying around somewhere. i have like 3 of them

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high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:52 AM

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I'm assuming you have enough space.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:52 AM

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on disk or on the thumb drive

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 9:52 AM

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Thumb drive.

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 9:52 AM

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lemme check

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ya there is

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😭

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okay the backup is done

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 10:10 AM

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Great

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 10:10 AM

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what do i pick

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 10:11 AM

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I mean, I'm guessing your root partition is sda3

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 10:12 AM

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i mean i cant pick anything else on that option

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it's running now

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i went with the same settings as in that screenshot

rocky spade Sep 30, 2024, 10:35 AM

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high sigil The reality is that, there *is* a way you can remove GNOME from your system thro...

you can't remove GNOME from mint because mint relies on it heavily. xfce4 propably not as much, but it still has gnome components, so everything would break when purging gnome

lost frigate Sep 30, 2024, 10:46 AM

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omg thank you very much

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 11:04 AM

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rocky spade you can't remove GNOME from mint because mint relies on it heavily. xfce4 propab...

Yes, but no.

high sigil Sep 30, 2024, 11:05 AM

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lost frigate omg thank you very much

I am assuming Timeshift did what you were expecting?

celest rampart Sep 30, 2024, 11:57 AM