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    [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you used NixOS, you could move your whole OS there!

    [–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Seriously thinking about nuking my years old Gentoo installation to try Nixos at this point.

    [–] tool@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Could always just get another drive instead of tearing it down, storage is pretty cheap these days.

    [–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    True. I'll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

    [–] tool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'll migrate my /home back to my root drive and use the spare drive to experiment with.

    Or just leave it where it is and mount it there too ¯\(ツ)/¯

    [–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Well my home is on my spare drive currently lol. I guess I could just create another btrfs subvol alongside @home and use that as root.

    [–] tool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But where's the fun in that? Then you don't get new hardware.

    [–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    I'd normally agree with you lol, but I got laid off recently so I have to make due with what I have for now.

    The obvious answer that escaped me for whatever reason was just to create a VirtualBox VM. I already have it installed so why not.

    [–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Tell me more...

    [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago

    The whole OS is configured by a single file (or subfiles you include from the main file) - every package and setting can be there. Meaning you just move the file to a new OS, run a single command, and you have the exactly same OS.