Alternatively, set up a hook (marky taught me this) to take a snapshot everytime you upgrade something with your package manager - could probably do the same with pip commands if you're not installing them into venvs :)
Wasn't anything as innocuous as pip libs. I decided to give wayland a try as a compositor as I'm and old geezer still in X11, and well, the libs even on debian sid are "dated" so, i installed a LOT of updated libraries just to build the wm, and it nuked like 99% of the apps debian installed. I could have restored the debian versions one at a time and picked off strays, but "it was time to put her down" :D
I have arch to blame for most of my knowledge as I used it for years. But I don't have the patience to configure every little thing anymore... Man I'm getting old...
I haven't booted into windows (Photoshop, PowerBI, Lightroom) since I installed Arch. I opted to use Photoshop and Lightroom on my Macbook M2 instead of pressing F8 on my desktop.
I am LOVING the freedom it gives me, and the performance! But I am reluctant to keep installing things as I slowly broaden what I am capable of on the system and the command line.
I'm still a total noob, but I am learning rapidly.
pacman is so easy, and yay gets you everything else. :)
I haven't been brave enough to playaround in fstab yet though...
Once it clicks it's hard to go back. I haven't booted into Windows for anything since the late 90s early 2ks.
That's how I learned, break it, fix it, break it again.
I start my new job in 6 days time - so I will presumably be using windows every day again, yuck. :P
But It will just remind me more and more why I am increasingly loving *nix environments.