Never had an update break on headless Debian. Even when switching from 12 to 13. That shit is solid.
I'm getting used to arch on my main desktop and I still can't figure out why the hell "sync" is the wording pacman uses for updating or why 'y' is refresh. Sync refresh upgrade my ass. I will admin, it is fast.
I did it on the GUI all day yesterday! The only problem Debian has is being unbreakable!
Heck, I switched repos from bookworm to trixie and installed 3 GiB worth of packages - 2.5k packages - and booted into a PERFECTLY WORKING system!
Installed the other 8 GiB afterwards and booted into a perfectly working system. Just before I thought Steam was broken, I rebooted and it came alive too.
And my GTX 1650 worked right away! Do you know how many times the daily 1 GiB update on Ubuntu breaks that?!
Flatpak updates are kinda' slow, no 4 GiB downloads needed per day, Debian updates arrive at like 200 MiB a month except for apps like VSCode, Signal, or Discord. And - to be honest - that's the Windows-unlike experience every distro is missing.
Debian really is unbreakable.
This meme brought to you by outdated packages in the official repo
Mfw I get to go through the same yt-dlp steps after a fresh install
Fedora: sudo dnf update Type the letter y Done.
I don't understand why apt still has update and upgrade as two separate things.
You can even add the -y flag to skip typing y. Which apparently doesn't work for pacman judging by the command above
I’m more of a fan of just adding the -y parameter to skip the question and go straight to updating. Works with the install command too.
sudo nala upgrade
--noconfirm
$ doas apk -U upgrade
Pacman sucks ass and this is a hill I will die on. Sure, it's fast, but there's such a thing as too fast. Like when I was updating the system once and it decided to delete bash to replace it, but it couldn't replace it because bash was gone already and my shell died since that's what I was logging in with. Oops! System is completely unusable now, got to reinstall arch again, because pacman pulls stunts like this.
There's no way that's true, right? Surely, the program would be smarter?
You would think that, but it happened to me several times over the course of about five years, with different parts of the core of the os. Granted, this was back when arch was in its infancy, before systemd was even a thing, so pacman may be smarter now. But I've completely written it off since it happened so many times. And reinstalling arch back them took the better part of a weekend, so it's not like it was an easy fix.
Or sudo dnf -y upgrade
Or the superior and succinct paru
Using bluefin or bazzite it is automatic in the background and I don't need to click anywhere or enter any command, I don't even need to open the terminal.