OP is not updating his Arch system regularly.
his previous update must have been at least two hours old.
or months🤷
my post was a meme joke.
I would swap the two characters in this image. I’m the user initiating the upgrade and the system is like “come on, not every day, right?”
I’m a simple man, I see a negative Net Upgrade Size and I get horny.
22.8 GiB install size !?
WTF?I must admit I don’t recall the size of my own installation, but that seems HUGE!
Anyways congratulations on getting it trimmed. 😋If you’re doing anything with GPU compute (Blender, AI, simulations etc.), just ROCm, CUDA or oneAPI alone will take up half of that
On my system Blender is only ½ a gig with all dependencies…
You need to start installing more electron applications and a bunch of jvms too.
CLEARLY This user doesn’t use corporate desktop apps
Larger than my entire root partition (currently at 21GB), but that’s because I made the fatal mistake to limit the partition to 25GB when I set it up. So I have to keep it trim, and I envy OP deep down.
Haha I did that once too, because I had a system that when upgrading I wanted a separate home partition so I could just reassign it to my new install.
Akchooly it’s 22.3 GiB.
there are a lot of things that i only used once, or that are duplicate in case something breakes lol
That’s like what, one and a half instances of Electron
in reality it’s like 70, which is still insane
lol mine is like 76GB. have been running the same install for going on 9 years now
76 GB packages from you Linux distro? Did you simply install ALL packeages?
If you install all the packages you can’t get sudden fomo at 3 am.
It’s the key to a restful night
I’m sorry but that’s fucking insane.
I thought I was untidy but this is next level
I probably got something like that. I am not really into minimal installs, kde-applications-meta and plasma-meta is what I go with. Absolutely everything.
I just wish I could safely use KDE Discover for updates. That’s probably what would work with “apply updates on reboot”, which sounds like the safest option. But for some reason packagekit-qt6 which would (probably) make this possible is not recommended to use.
Preferably I’d go with something like KDE Neon or Kubuntu. I just really like KDE. But there’s just no sweet spot for me. Arch gives me new packages with all the bugs. Each update feels scary, what will I discover. Based on my Timeshift notes, last point without major bugs was 31st of October. Something like Linux Mint was stable, but I was missing some newer packages, and even drivers when my laptop was new. And major version upgrades also feel scary. Although, I don’t even know how they work. This is where Arch makes more sense to me. Linux as desktop OS is really just a huge bunch of packages working together, and they slowly get updated. When packaged into an entire OS, how do you even define a version?
I also use KDE, and it is far from minimal, but as I recall my system is only half that with a full system upgrade!
Some say creativity stuff takes much room, but for instance Blender is only ½ a gig.But maybe my system is bigger than I remember, because even at 40 gig it’s near irrelevant compared to the size of an SSD today, and with 1 gigabit internet the upgrades are fast anyway.
IDK if there’s a way to see the size of my actual Linux install not counting 3rd party media or games?
Remember to
yay -Scconce in a whilepaccache can be configured to keep x amount of old packages and can be added as a pacman hook, so you never need to run that yourself!
“Perfection is reached not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”
- Antoine Saint-Exupery
