Fedora because it’s stable and effective.

Technitium

Yep. And you could even be ‘extra’ and do cool effects with compiz et all. Fancy got noticed by others.

Old school here, I use mutt. :P on android I use FairEmail and really like it.

Rightfully so.

More software and competitors are born from spite, versus anything else I’d bet.

it can’t really be that bad.

LoL; you say that… But

I concur.

Lemmy isn’t much better in that regard.

Amazing list, thanks for sharing.

Seconded. Weechat and Gomuks for matrix chat.

An OS can be restored. Backup your data, so /home for sure and maybe any custom configs for /etc, like your wireguard configs. So anything you specifically edited/added for /etc directory.

Btop is pretty. Htop tells me what I want to know. I prefer htop and it’s my goto.

Can you be more specific. Alternatives for what? One time list or would you want and expect it to be constantly updated? By whom?

This list and many others like it, may be what you’re looking for.

Any connection to EteSync?

All I’m saying is that aur has more stuff.

Sure, but that does not equate to the premise you made that Arch is easier to use than Debian.

There’s a lot more going on with restic aside from just that, but yes. So with an rsync of your home dir (for example), it’s reliant on the FS to do compression and deduplication (ZFS,btrs), and/or it will still take up a lot of wasted space. Say you got ransom-wared. It’s okay you have that rsync backup, but oh crap it got ransom-wared to. No more backups to try? Restic gives you snapshots for whatever increment you set and just handles it simply. You can then restore one file from any of the snaphots (history) or every single file. Restoreing 250kb vs 400TB is quite a difference. The benefits of this, are huge even beyond the fire and forget capability.

I mean, rsync handling everything via mirroring and pushed to a ZFS FS, would be sort of the same thing.

Because that serve different purposes. rsync is for moving data around, synchronization of such. It has no concept of point in time restoration, or snapshots (etc) that really define a backup solution. I use restic because its the proper tool for the job.

I use Mikrotik networking gear. I love the capabilities, just wish RouterOS was a bit easier to administer.

Clonezilla has its place, but not as a main backup and restoration tool. I personally don’t see it as a backup tool, especially that it operates at partition level for such. What you want is you base install system and file level backups for your data (/home/) etc. For the file level backups, use something like restic. Backup what you need to go from a fresh install to a system with your data back on it. Packages can be reinstalled.

Restic is my primary backup for all my devices. If I need something more than fresh iso -> my data system, I use packer.