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Won't bore with details, but to summarize, I fixed a massively fucked Mesa driver situation with a quick Timeshift back and a few minor tweaks. No need to reinstall, or fiddle with command line magic. If your not using Timeshift (or some other form of backup), you might want to look into it. Can potentially save a ton of headache and time

Won't bore with details, but to summarize, I fixed a massively fucked Mesa driver situation with a quick Timeshift back and a few minor tweaks. No need to reinstall, or fiddle with command line magic. If your not using Timeshift (or some other form of backup), you might want to look into it. Can potentially save a ton of headache and time

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I'll keep it in mind, I'm preparing to make the jump from windows to linux on my main rig and want something to make it easy to unfuck myself when I inevitably fuck myself

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Yup. After a dirty mesa uninstall, I was left booting to a command line. a quick sudo timeshift --restore, picked a recent backup, and worked from there. No fuss, no muss

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How well does it do daily backups?

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Very. It will not back up the settings of a dynamic program (i.e., it will not delete or restore the config file of a web browser). But if you have a bad update, or if your about to do a risky install like I did using the twice daily build of Mesa PPA (oops), it works wonders to delete and restore all system files to the time of the snapshot