1 yr. ago • 97%

POV: you haven't updated in 3 days, and you're using a rolling release system

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Does anyone else run updates and watch the screen like you're some movie hacker?

Then when it's finish, you crack your knuckles and go, "It's about time. 😎" but all you do is open Firefox and look at some boring website for two hours?

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- This reminds me the other day I was in my house stressed because I couldn't install Cyberpunk 2077 on Fedora (I'm new to Linux so I don't know much and I had been distro hopping).
  
  My MIL was in the house and she saw my screen filled with open terminals, documentation, lutris, wine, everything you can imagine open because I had no idea how to solve a stupid issue.
  
  I heard her tell my wife "wow he must be pretty busy, he must be doig something really important and it's so impressive that he can read code like that I didn't know he could do that"
  
  All I wanted to do was to play some damn game bro...
  
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  Terminal = hacker
  
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  Why couldn't you?
  
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  😂
  
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  Here's the thing - you were learning some valuable troubleshooting skills and some details about the workings of your operating system. The reward was playing a game.
  
  One day you'll realize you've passively developed enough skill to use on the job.
  
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- sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade | lolcat
  
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- I didn't realize there was any other way to update your Linux system
  
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Damn, how many packages you feeding that thing. Post the neofetch 🤣

Arch beenn feeling this way over last few weeks with all the kde updates basically adding "5" to end of their name.

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- It's even worse when you have 60 packages to just hit enter to and then one that defaults to no for a conflict and you have to do it all over again.
  
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  Oh yeah with that one update a few days ago that required --overwrite..forget which package it was.
  
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  I have been ignoring virtualbox for months now because something about incompatible dependencies
  
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- Did I see that right: they added it and then removed it a few days later? Could be the other way round too.
  
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I used to run a yay -Syu on my system almost daily.

Now, I run a pacman -Syu once every 2-3 weeks, and I only ever update a package from the AUR if I do need it updated or is there a serious vulnerability.

Turns out I don't have a real need to have my personal system running bleeding edge new software at all times. Sure, the updates are larger, but I no longer feel like risking my system stability on a daily basis. I'm a lot happier this way.

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- Timeshift set to create backup automatically before applying system updates..anything bricks I load my last save an trouble shoot when i have time
  
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- Same, I’m planning to switch to OpenSUSE slowroll when it comes out of beta.
  
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- I only update my air packages when one of them screams at me or I need to install another aur package. I still do neuroticly run sudo pacman -Syu though. I like the yellow dot that eats the other white dots
  
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My arch install every 5 minutes

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- while [ true ]; do pacman -Syu --noconfirm; done
  
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  Yeah no i want to know if an update breaks my system
  
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All haskell

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- But you updated glibc, right? Right?
  
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I know

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I literally didn't update my fedora distro on my laptop for 2 months (because I didn't have much use of it those last months) and I have 500+ packages to update, and on my PC with an arch-based distro, after 5 days, I have already 100 packages to update

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- I haven’t used (or updated) my laptop with Fedora for several months, I might just wipe it and install Nix.
  
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Damn it, I shuld turn my PC on and update it 😅. This is gonna be pain, after 2 months.

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All those haskell modules

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- I hate that. Can't they make a "haskell-all" package?!
  
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  Good Idea, why shouldn't there be something like that? It would also keep the modules from being desynced if your mirrors haven't updated them all
  
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What distro are you using? I update on a weekly basis and usually have 10 - 15 updated packages.

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- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
  
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  I've done some 6k+ package updates fairly regularly with zipper never missing a beat. I know several other package managers that would have shat themselves long before that.
  
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yay

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- paru
  
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  aura
  
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I'll just stick with Debian and Fedora

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Just updated my Tumbleweed. Last update was from 5 june 😎👌

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- You didn't update it since June? Wow, you really know how to get the good side of rolling releases.
  
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Me jumping from debian stable to sid

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I like Fedora but the daily notifications about updates is annoying

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Haven't updated in 2+ months... It's gonna be a carefully read when I do it 😮‍💨

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This is why I use bazzite on my gaming computers now. My home server crap is still a nightmare though.

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only 2.1 updates, man they really rolling out updates if they using non integers

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I am also on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I think the massive update yesterday was the aftermath of the glibc bug.

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Gentoo and you had to rebuild whole KDE/Gnome & co. after glibc bug?

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That looks more like two years worth or you installed every single thing in the repo.

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I've been using pop OS and it is actually kind of frustrating how I can't seem to go a single day without notifications in the bar saying there are updates to install.

A couple of days ago I did all of the updates, it asked for a reboot, I rebooted, and when it booted back up it had more updates than it had when I updated it.

I think I need to turn the notifications off and I'll just update when I remember to update.

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Laughs in Kinoite with automatic upgrades on (it's safe, flatpaks and most distroboxes too). I reboot sometimes and it's all done in ~20sec.

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- It's safe until someone oopsies the repos and mislabels the i386 packages as x64.
  
  Ubuntu did this a few months back. I spent hours trying to fix it afterwards. Seems they got it fixed decently quick so it was likely just bad timing on my part.
  
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  It's safe because it's immutable with intrinsic rollback. Also fedora.
  
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