📅 2024-09-11
A couple days ago I was having quite a few problems with Void Linux, mostly related to software updates: Plasma 6 broke my IME, some new OBS version broke recording, for some reason Virt Manager stopped working because it thought that I had disabled virtualization… Lots of annoying issues like that. Void Linux portrays itself as a “stable rolling release” distro, but when something breaks, and you don’t have a package cache (because you had to delete it all for you to be able to update in the first place…), your only option is compiling the packages from source. And if that doesn’t work, tough luck.
Anyway, I ended switching to Debian1, and even though I had backed up a few things manually, I… forgot to backup my password database before distrohopping… Y-Yeah… I mean, I had an older backup that contained most of my accounts (which is why I can still access this website), but I still lost access to a lot of things. It made me feel really depressed for a while, on top of having to adapt to using Debian, but I’m (mostly) doing alright now. I was really lucky for having that older backup, but I won’t be relying on luck from now on. I have already come up with a better backup strategy.
So yeah, losing my recent passwords means I also lost access to my PGP keypair, which was created recently. I have created a new one, and it has already been uploaded to this website. You can grab it here. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Gimme a couple weeks and maybe I’ll write about my experience using it so far. I have pretty much only used bleeding edge, rolling release Linux distros, so it’s an interesting feeling to use something so stable (and old…). ↩︎