with rolling release comes rolling responsibility
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
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 👍”
Net upgrade size should be in the negatives
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
5 minutes?
How does one go so long between updates?
That’s my secret; I’m always updating.
Thanks for reminding me!
> yay
Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, archlinux?
Does it come with literature?
No, just a wiki
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.
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.
mfw arch users are more likely to be virgins than monks.
Shit! Thanks! I forgot!
Step one, uninstall garbage like Deno, VSCode, fucking GitHub CLI.
My reaction was this guy is a Microsoft plant, there’s no way someone running arch isn’t using VSCodium if they liked VSCode
REEEEE someone is using their computer not how I would use it!
lmfao arch users are such losers
#debian #stable #roll on deez nuts
Joke’s on you buddy, I’m using Trixie just like you!
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!
I heard you like updates. Have you tried Gentoo yet?
I’d you do every day updates, you are a sucker!
Oh fuck I havent used my terminal buddy in two weeks and its arch.
Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately
Between what?
