Update before upgrade you nonce
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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Cβmon, itβs Debian! Obsolete anyway. Update today, upgrade in a week, not like things gonna change. Perhaps the man forgot the upgrade a week ago, upgraded, and then decided to double-check thereβs nothing new anyway. Right?
Isn't this how Non-Torvalds Linus bricked his install
No, no. You gotta update last to let them marinate for a while before you upgrade. If you upgrade too fast it just doesn't taste the same.
i agree not as tender
Aaaand... you're on Debian, so Blender 4.0 just got added to the testing branch. (Blender 4.0 still haven't been tested for 168 hours of continuous running without touching it)
It's a good thing system packages (which should follow a conservative update approach if possible to guarantee system stability, unless hardware demands newer packages) and user applications (which you'd usually want to be most up-to-date) are increasingly isolated from each other and mostly able to follow their own schedules. Also improves security and such.
genini update my machine
Because I'm apparently a raging masochist
sorry, usage of this tool has been discontinued, please use [WORSE TOOL WITH DIFFERENT NAME]
(joking but not really, gemini-cli is going to the google graveyard, replaced by antigravity-cli that's basically the same, but in google's tradition it launches with less features and also it's not FOSS)
Then windows says "Undoing Changes" because its shit software doesn't work
You misspelled pacman -Syu
No, you misspelled zypper dup. But with enough time, you'll get there.
I kneel
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I just want to share that last semester, the Windows podium computer we used decided randomly to update during a student presentation. It did not help their nerves, but I did turn it into a chance to evangelize Linux.
And no, they can't use their own laptop, the connections to the podium computer, and thus the projector, use VGA...
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sudo zypper dup
Every single time Iβve run upgrade on Debian, Iβve bricked my install. Iβm sure Iβm doing something wrong π
I'm probably a big newb, but on my headless Debian machines, major updates screw me up sometimes too.
- "Ah! All my updates can't be found on the server? Oh we're done with "Bo-Peep" and moving to "PotatoHead" now? Maybe I should be on the newsletter or something..."
- Change some sources in that one text file I gotta look up every time...
apt update && apt dist-upgrade"Oh, that's a lot of errors..."
I'm sure it's not that bad and I'm being dramatic but I do kinda appreciate my rolling OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this reason lol. I feel like newbies would struggle with that major release upgrade process...
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Or if you're me, yay -Syu and wait 4 fucking hours (Because you barely ever remember to do it).
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topgrade -y
You're welcome.
nixos-rebuild switch
going to nix from another distro like the leap from going from windows to linux
I'd rather switch back to Windows than try NixOS again. The immutable structure was far too rigid for me.
I run an Ubuntu server and I make the history keep a lot of entries so I remember which files I changed
It shouldn't have to be like this
Linux noob here. Just upgraded hardware and reinstalled Windows and Linux on the gaming computers and even though I'm a complete Linux beginner, 9 out of 10 software issues were with windows! I couldn't believe a gazzilion dollar company with thousands of employees still couldn't get it right?
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