TFW you unintentionally do a digital purge
About 3 weeks ago I accidentally lost all data on my hard drives including my backup drive. What happened? Heck if I know! I was gaming, building a city in Cities:Skylines and next thing I know my computer's completely frozen. I get a sudden monitor glitch so I power cycle. Reboot. No dice. Fetch an install ISO Fedora (because why not?) and attempt to install. I notice I cannot mount the encrypted home volume. I test this in a live environment. Partition corrupted. I realized I was actually doing backups while I was gaming. Check my backup hard drive. Same. R U FUCKING SRS?!
Gotta love shit like that. So both drives somehow both instascrambled on me AND my record city of 154k fine citizens was reduced to 0 in an instant. I was big mad. Fuming. A bit pupset. I actually went beside myself for a minute.
So post #digitalPurge what I got going on is a pretty plain Gnome setup on Fedora with most of my installed apps being installed as flatpak --user. Going for as much system separation so that changing distros in the future a bit more modular of an experience. Already trying new setups too including going with the helix editor over the venerable neovim editor. Switching to Markdown entirely for notes instead of org-mode. Really just rethinking and simplifying. Doubling down on Gnome / Adwaita has been great. FreeTube, still can't recommend enough if you find YouTube to be grating. It's also been a lot of work as I also rethink my password storage and backup strategies to make things more fail-proof. If I enjoy Fedora, I might look into Silverblue.