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submitted 1 year ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have tried it on several distros before and it always causes problems because you get a million more packages intermingled with your already installed packages and sometimes you get conflicts or whatever. But it usually messes up my system. is there a safe way to have several desktops installed? or do you pretty much install a new one then remove the old one? thanks

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[-] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yup. Ive heard timeshift is good. Now i just gotta actually use it.

Hows the experience with timeshift been when youve used it? Pretty easy to restore from?

[-] MrTHXcertified@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty easy, and it's saved my bacon a handful of times. Most recently I restored from command line because I borked my display driver (legacy Nvidia user).

Aside from that instance, everything else was done through the GUI.

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