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Discussion on: Is using Linux really productive?

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Randy Burgess

No offense to Arch Linux fans but rebuilding a machine for what is mainly an IntelliJ issue is a terrible idea. Open a ticket with Jetbrains and they'll quickly figure that out.

If you can't drop everything for two weeks to build your OS installation from scratch there are other polished distros that can be installed in no time. Install Time Machine and backup ubuntu to somewhere besides the root file system. Back up your user files also. Both Linux Mint and Pop!_OS are easy to setup and be productive with in 30 minutes vs. weeks.