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[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 89 points 10 months ago

There's never a wrong time to update Arch Linux!

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 79 points 10 months ago

No wrong times, only small periods of unfortunate times!

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I think you mean there’s never a right time to update! You’re always rolling the dice!

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

So that's why they're called "rolling" releases!

/s

[-] exu@feditown.com 4 points 10 months ago

Roll d20

Nat 1

Your Arch install just wiped itself and all your personal data, hope you had backups

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 46 points 10 months ago

"An update can wreck your bootloader with no notice, but hey, that's part of the fun!"

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 29 points 10 months ago

A wrecked bootloader is not a problem, but a lesson to keep a usb drive to be able to chroot.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 35 points 10 months ago

Timeshift has been huge for this

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago

Atomic distro users: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 34 points 10 months ago

Never had problems with that tbh, only with NVidia. Even on testing.

[-] Schmeckinger@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I had a problem with a Intel HD4000 on arch.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 12 points 10 months ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Gollum, Frodo, and Gandalf are in the Harry Potter films?

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Spoiler alert Snape kills Boromir

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

The moment you finally install arch and your realize you still feel empty inside.

[-] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

The moment I finally installed Arch was then I felt "freedom" for the first time. No longer do I need to make compromises on my system and have things installed that I don't need or want. It's my system that I put together the way I like it. A bonus is that I know my system pretty well if something should break and I have the wiki to guide me

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Should've installed Intel.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

The moment you install arch and you realise your computer feels empty inside.

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

I tried arch once. Eventually, my computer just showed a black screen on booting. I managed to fix it by resetting my bios. That was the end of that attempt at using arch. Still want to try again, though.

[-] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I had this happen once or twice, caused by bad Nvidia drivers with Wayland.

I use AMD now for my day job, haven't had a single issue in over two years. That's not to say you should use it - it's still a rolling release distro and will always have a potential to break over most other distros.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

He jumped into Gentoo two days after with Arch

[-] jpablo68@infosec.pub 9 points 10 months ago

As a former arch linux guy, the solution to this is to be prepared by having a separate partition for home, and a bash script to reinstall f---ing everything again with a single command.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 10 points 10 months ago

a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again

Why would you ever want to do that?

First of all, almost any Arch update induced problem can be solved by downgrading the offending package to the previous version, which handily is available in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.

Even an unbootable system (which has only happened once in my 10 years of using Arch because I didn't read important news) can be fixed this way, because you can always boot from the installation usb stick and then use arch-chroot to access your installation and fix problems.

Secondly, if the problem was indeed caused by an Arch update, you will just reinstall the problem if you run a reinstall script.

[-] sazey@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Honestly I only ever learnt Linux admin by troubleshooting my borked Arch updates, necessity being the mother of invention and all.

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[-] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

New arch user. Just switched to LTS on my gaming rig. Only took 6 months to learn my lesson.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

It's not the kernel but always mkinit in my case, on multiple machines. Even if i did never do nothing related. And booster/dracut and Efistub somehow never worked.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

I am totally ready for it, I know it's a thing, especially since I drink the forbidden nectar that is the AUR. Yet I've never had this happen even once.

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Btrfs my beloved. Things stop working? Just load a snapshot lol.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

Just don't try plugging it into a Raspberry Pi 5.

No data loss, but won't work without changing your kernel. The other way around is much worse though


you can use an RPi5 to make a BTRFS drive which essentially only works on RPi5s.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

That's what snapshots are for.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I used arch over 5 years in the past. Isn't it common today checking the update news on the arch wiki before updating?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago

Why would you need to do that? Just use something stable.

[-] tron@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

Recovering Arch user here. I really like Bazzite!

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

Sure it is, but we are lazy you know.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

After breaking on my notebook for the umpteenth time, i try now void. Have to fix some of my automation scripts tho.

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

EOS not once failed to update properly in over a year.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Been using EOS a lot longer and always flawless.

The only problem I have had is leaving a system too long and having to remember how to get the damn keyring to refresh. That is my biggest complaint.

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