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What is/was your distrohopping journey?

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feddit.nlI think I just nuked my home partition - feddit.nlI wanted to install Debian Linux after a weird journey with Gentoo Linux. My partition layout is this: - Boot Partition (512 MiB, mount at /boot) - Swap Partition (4 GiB) - Root Partition (~80 GiB, mount at /) - Home Partition (~170 GiB, mount at /home, LUKS encrypted) While trying to preserve the home partition, I think I clicked ‘Configure encrypted partitions’ on the Debian installer and then set a password for it (the same that it had before). Now, I can unlock it like before, but after it is unlocked, no utility recognizes the filesystem (ext4) and the file command reports it as being data: # file -s -L /dev/mapper/home /dev/mapper/home: data file on the encrypted partition returns the following: # file -s /dev/nvme0n1p4 /dev/nvme0n1p4: LUKS encrypted file, ver 2, header size 16384, ID 3, algo sha256, salt 0x590d84c0e8397ad0..., UUID: c5ff37db-11f7-4ccf-8869-c4bc22648202, crc 0x345f75d85c9f444a..., at 0x1000 {"keyslots":{"0":{"type":"luks2","key_size":64,"af":{"type":"luks1","stripes":4000,"hash":"sha256"},"area":{"type":"raw","offse (This is the complete output, it cuts at offset for some reason) My luksDump output is this: # cryptsetup luksDump /dev/nvme0n1p4 LUKS header information Version: 2 Epoch: 3 Metadata area: 16384 [bytes] Keyslots area: 16744448 [bytes] UUID: c5ff37db-11f7-4ccf-8869-c4bc22648202 Label: (no label) Subsystem: (no subsystem) Flags: (no flags) Data segments: 0: crypt offset: 16777216 [bytes] length: (whole device) cipher: aes-xts-plain64 sector: 512 [bytes] Keyslots: 0: luks2 Key: 512 bits Priority: normal Cipher: aes-xts-plain64 Cipher key: 512 bits PBKDF: argon2id Time cost: 6 Memory: 1048576 Threads: 4 Salt: 18 b4 a6 e9 87 1f 94 f6 7d 96 f2 9c 0f 2e ca 75 e6 0f 80 7d 09 70 40 19 d0 a4 a1 49 ff 5c 1c 0b AF stripes: 4000 AF hash: sha256 Area offset:32768 [bytes] Area length:258048 [bytes] Digest ID: 0 Tokens: Digests: 0: pbkdf2 Hash: sha256 Iterations: 171785 Salt: c2 b0 a6 f5 e1 bf 5f 85 82 b1 d5 f3 10 c6 ae b7 7c fc 50 41 c5 a6 03 f6 5a bd ac df 46 89 7b c6 Digest: 57 7d fb 87 69 c5 58 07 cf 82 88 5e f8 c6 39 f5 7d 00 ec 07 e0 df b8 ee b5 dd ff 20 bf b3 bc 01 My guess is that I re-encrypted the already encrypted partition. Also, I noticed that the UUID changed. Can anyone help me recover it? Thanks in advance. If you need more logs, I will happily provide them to you.

Windows (~6 years) -> Mandriva (Mandrake? For I think 2-3 years) -> Ubuntu (1 day) -> Suse (2 days) -> Slackware (2-3 years) -> Gentoo unstable (2-3 years) -> Gentoo stable (2-3 years) -> Arch (9 years and counting)

The only span I’m sure about is the last one. When I started a job I decided I don’t have the time to compile the world anymore. But the values after Windows sum up to 21, should be 20, so it’s all more or less correct

I’ve never had gentoo before, but what I’ve heard from other people might explain that part of your journey. You went from unstable to stable to Arch, which says something.

Gentoo unstable was a little bit tiring in the long run. The bleeding edge, but often I needed to downgrade because the rest of the libraries were not ready

Gentoo stable was really great. Back then pulseaudio was quite buggy. Having a system where I could tell all applications and libraries to not even link to it (so no need to have it installed at all) made avoiding its problems really easy
But when my hardware got older and compilation of libreoffice started to take 4h, I remembered how nice it was on Slackware where you just install package you broke and you’re done

Arch looked like a nice middle-ground. Most of the things in packages, big focus on pure Linux configurability (pure /etc files, no Ubuntu(or SUSE?) “you need working X.org to open distro-specific graphics card settings”) and AUR for things there are no official packages for. Turned out it was a match :)

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I never had the nerve to install Gentoo and bring my humble CPU to it's knees *LOL*

It was a great adventure. But yeah, that setup was on 24/7. Not because of compilation, but it definitely made a lot of this more feasible