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reminder that you can just run "dnf up" for update
I have 9gb to download to update my arch system. At this point it isn't even a rolling distro anymore 😭
For me the legacy nVidia driver put on the AUR is a no-go. Even before that, non-fiber internet added friction to updating especially when I forgot about it for a while (or when manual intervention is needed).
I installed Void Linux on an old machine, I think updating might be more forgiving but the packaging system isn't quite as good* and for some things I'd have to rely on appimages (I don't want redundancy from Flatpak etc).
Tumbleweed/Slowroll might be a better answer if I didn't hate Patterns.
* after adding some applications, already had to manually install missing dependencies, optional dependencies is also not handled
Good to know that void worked out for you, but I'm using linux for ease of use, and arch is plenty easy to use for me after all these years, so I'm gonna stay here lol
And I hate appimages, flatpaks are much better (when paired with a good and fast app store, like Bazaar)
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Buddy, are you sure about that pacman -syu tho? I used to run several different rolling release distros and i wouldnt call them smooth. Like its no windows update but its not that simple either.
Oh thanks, forgot to update my system yesterday.
sudo nixos-rebuild switchI know the advantage of nixos is super easy deployment but for a single desktop what advantage does it offer? I am an atomic fedora user myself.
Roll back to a previous version, source control your configuration to record all your changes, install services for your packages to configure them, switch to a new version without rebooting
peace of mind?
or
nh os switch .
if you're feeling fancy
winget isn't perfect but it has improved things (and i say this as someone who switched to linux as a daily driver)
Put nix flake update on the left side though lol, shit will rebuild your whole system for one minor version bump
*cries in AUR supply chain attacks*
FR, I have had so few problems wiþ arch updates in þe past couple of years my update flow has become
$ archnews
$ pacman -Syu --noconfirm
$ yay -Qu # review and cautiously update 1 at a time
Þe last step used to be a for loop on yay -Qu output, but þe attacks have me being far more cautious. Still, þe issue is wiþ security, not þat I'm concerned about anyþing breaking. It happens, but it's always a package issue and not a package manager one.
E.G., a new dovecot version utterly broke all config file backwards compatibility and took down my IMAP server for a couple of frustrating days, until I downgraded it. Þat's dovecot's fault, not Arch's.