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Thanks for reminding me!
> yay
If arch is so hard why are all their users so joyous going yay all the time?
5 minutes?
How does one go so long between updates?
That's my secret; I'm always updating.
Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, archlinux?
Does it come with literature?
No, just a wiki
Debian does! :3
It comes with frequent failures to boot, and every update is a russian roulette that might just force you to spend the next few hours figuring out what the fuck broke down this time.
I don't know what distro y'all are on, but I've been a beginner on an Arch based distro for a couple of years and I haven't had a major issue that wasn't fixed by an update and reboot.
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Depends. How many virigns in heaven do I get?
Zero, but you'll love the uniform
I did some research. Is this an apt representation of what I can expect? If it is, I'm in!
That's it exactly. Welcome to the club.
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POV: You haven't updated Arch for 5 minutes
Comparing the date on the tweet with the date when arch released go-2:1.26.1-1, it appears that it had been over a week since the last upgrade.
Okaybuddyprivateinvestigator
No one lies on the internet when cypherpunk is on the case!
with rolling release comes rolling responsibility
Step one, uninstall garbage like Deno, VSCode, fucking GitHub CLI.
I keep my install pretty clean, for a desktop machine. Though I use a heavier DE (KDE) so that brings a lot of dependencies. But I only install software via pacman/aur that I am familiar with and know I'll use. If I want to futz with something new or just temporarily, I'll do it via virtualization, flakpaks, nix packages, or app images.
Point is, I try to keep the cruft to a minimum, but I find the meme holds true still.
I use Artix BTW. For now anyway. But so far so good!
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This is not even a meme. I updated my laptop yesterday and here I am doing yet another upgrade with 400mb+ dl size.
I was trawling through Octopi and saw an update notifier. Thought it was neat. Now I won't have to update if there's no updates, I thought.
I removed it after a day. I could have set it to only look once a day, but realised that if I just update as part of what I do before I shutdown then I basically got the same effect, without being actually notified of anything. I don't think there's ever been a time where I ran an update and it said "nah nothing to do 👍"
I literally completed an update the other day and by the time it was done there were new updates. The update notification is useless, lol.
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Net upgrade size should be in the negatives
I heard you like updates. Have you tried Gentoo yet?
This is all fine as long as you are not on a throttled connection. I read an blog post a couple of years ago in which the author switched from Arch to Debian for a longer offgrid vacation for this exact reason.
Just don’t update
Updating your software is the most important action one can take for cyber security, so no. That is not an option.
Also the update can fail if you wait too long (mostly GPG keys, which can be fixed)
Calm down. All updates are not security updates. People can read change logs before deciding to update.
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Just install pamac, it can update every time you shut down. I don't mind it updating every day if I don't have to babysit it.
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Oh fuck I havent used my terminal buddy in two weeks and its arch.
just set up a cron job to upgrade your system every 5 minutes
That'll be three gigs to download hut we will give you 200 megs of free space back, as far as what's changed? We've further optimized the system for you and you can enjoy using it as before ie more better but nothing you'll notice.
I understand why but updates that do nothing but keep you up to date are annoying for the user.
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Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately
There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month
I mean, just use any stable distro and you can live that life. Arch is good for its own reasons precisely because it's this way.
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No, thank you very much, I like my CVEs and bugs being fixed as soon as possible.
This is not applicable to arch tho
Each package is updated independently, you pull updates whenever you feel like it, be that monthly or every five minutes
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What the hell even is Github CLI? Is that like a Microslop clone of git or what?
It's a CLI tool for interacting with remote repos and things like issues and PRs on GitHub.
I borked my caxhyOS install yesterday with a sudo pacman -Syu......
Took me about 5 min to fix restoring one of the snapshots in the bootloader
Snapshots? What are you, a medical institution?
Shit! Thanks! I forgot!
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