For me it’s installing a new OS every six months for a fun new experience.

I actually do that. It forces me to backup the most necessary things and throw away the rest, hence making the OS feel cleaner.

reinstalling the os because im to lazy to clean the drives

NixOS is great, you can even have it automatically reinstall and wipe your garbage with Impermanence lol

NixOS.

LoL my current Gentoo system was installed like 12 years ago and moved on 5 different hardware platforms without a proper reinstall.

I have said myself to never peek in the /etc directory for any reason! 😅