Rolling release master race checking for updates several times per day.
Rolling release, update every now and then, 4000+ packages is common. Nothing ever breaks.
Thanks zipper!
I’m guessing you mean zypper?
I did.
However my zipper never breaks either. So both work, although in that case it’s loosely related.
emerge --sync?i haven’t checked for updates on one of my machines for like 7 months now. some packages are partial upgrades (hilariously, xz is currently on the backdoored version and I don’t care to fix it)
the thing survived multiple 500+ package upgrades from partial upgrade state and has been running for like 2.5 years now
Update your system frequently,
that minimizes the chance of things breaking in my experience.I only ever update between projects - no way am I going to break something in the middle of everything.
This time, jump to new gnome means broken extensions as usual, and a hilarious one: qbittorrent doesn’t show it’s window in Wayland (gnome-with-X works). The soft is running, it there in the list of apps, there’s even a big X “Close Window” button on Zoom Out but no actual window.
Eh. Lol?
But not too frequently. Updating too often on Arch will increase your chances of something breaking. Updating once a week or twice a week gives the developers some time to fix bugs and make changes to other packages as needed
Your comment is my reasoning why I use Manjaro :P
All the Arch niceness,
with fewer bugs / breakage
and easier to use.Sure you might get an issue from outdated dependencies from AUR packages from time to time, but the chance / impact of those is usually rather small.
My roommate will have 400+ updates waiting because “something breaks every time I update.”
My roommate will have 400+ updates waiting because “something breaks every time I update.”
Sounds like your roomie uses Ubuntu with a bunch of random PPAs.
Last time my Ubuntu Linux broke anything during an update is over 15 years ago. Last time a version upgrade failed was probably too over 5-10 years ago. I literally can’t remember those times
I have a laptop running Linux Mint I only use for hosting bar trivia. I only need it to run like 4 applications but I need them to run flawlessly. The last time I updated it jacked up my soundboard, which I didn’t notice until I was in front of a crowd and it played the wrong sound effects. Never again.
it didn’t break anything “so far”
Don’t worry. When you reboot, your kernel will have magically disappeared!
Spell it with me D-E-B-I-A-N
UBUNTU?
Let me guess, you use Arch when writing your bronie fanfics?
Nope. Look at pfp.
Imagine having pfps enabled while browsing Lemmy. Some people are wild.
Can’t wait to get KDE 6 in 2027!
I use GNOME btw
Just wait till you have 1200+ packages to upgrade. Luckily OpenSuSe Tumbleweed handles it like a champ
Just wait till you have 1200+ packages to upgrade. Luckily OpenSuSe Tumbleweed handles it like a champ
New major version of GCC? Let’s recompile everything! Takes a bit to download but yes, openQA at openSUSE does its job.
I update my packages every day on debian. I have yet to have something break. The only issue I ever had was steam got uninstalled when dist-upgrading from debian 11 to 12. Promptly reinstalled, of course all my games were still on disk.
I use a cron job but have
alias updog='sudo apt update | lolcat && sudo apt upgrade -y | lolcat'
for when I feel like making sureYou should look into
unattended-upgrades
Updating pandoc on arch feels like 250 packages, so you don’t have to forget updating for this experience.
Its gentoo it broke everythihg because portage is for galazy brain people
Soooo many man pages
Only for version updates. Beyond that, dnf-automatic handles those invisibly in the background. I only notice them when Firefox gets an update and demands a relaunch before it lets me keep browsing.
let me just quickly check discord … and manually download and run this update before we can automatically update again
I’m on the Ubuntu 24.04 beta and this is what I get in a day.
ITT: People who have never heard of Crontab
What are you trying to say with this? You think running automatic, unattended updates with a cronjob is a good idea?
