Rolling release master race checking for updates several times per day.
Cannot update 600 packages because library-you’ve-never-heard-of conflicts with what-the-fuck-even-is-a-polypterodaclib?
KDE’s qt6 transition sure was something
polypterodaclib
Fucking hell, I nearly spat out my coffee at that one word. Bravo.
Rolling release, update every now and then, 4000+ packages is common. Nothing ever breaks.
Thanks zipper!
I’m guessing you mean zypper?
I did.
However my zipper never breaks either. So both work, although in that case it’s loosely related.
Update your system frequently,
that minimizes the chance of things breaking in my experience.My roommate will have 400+ updates waiting because “something breaks every time I update.”
My roommate will have 400+ updates waiting because “something breaks every time I update.”
Sounds like your roomie uses Ubuntu with a bunch of random PPAs.
Once I went travelling and left my arch(btw) desktop computer unplugged for just over a full month.
When I came back there were 1 235 packages needing updating, between repo and AUR.
… It worked fine tho. That install didn’t really go to shit until about a month ago, when months of sloppy system management on my end finally caught up to me and left me with a lot of mysterious issues. So I cut my losses and ditched it.
I’m using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed now (btw).
I’m using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed now (btw).
I wonder why people don’t say : I don’t use Arch BTW… ?
I have a laptop running Linux Mint I only use for hosting bar trivia. I only need it to run like 4 applications but I need them to run flawlessly. The last time I updated it jacked up my soundboard, which I didn’t notice until I was in front of a crowd and it played the wrong sound effects. Never again.
Laughs in NixOS, smiles in btrfs snapshots.
Btrfs snapshots not always work tho), i tell this story for *th time on lemmy but my fedora 38 btrfs broke completely from update to 39 and when i tried revert to 38 with help of btrfs snapshots, what came out is weird mix of 38 and 39 and when i reverted again, my whole ssd on which fedora btrfs was installed, this ssd locked completely, on hardware level, even though it was brand new, 2 weeks of usage by me, i fortunately repaired ssd myself and flashed lmde6 on it, but avoided btrfs and fedora after that
Yeah, also a bit wary of btrfs. I sure hope some day bcachefs can be the true cow filesystem in Linux. There is hope, it is pretty good already.
NixOS definitely solves the issue of rollbacks the best here. And FreeBSD.
Was using btrfs then in manjaro, broke my laptop because btrfs seems to be shit at handling loss of power cases. Switched to good ol ext4 and nixos, never looked back since.
I update my packages every day on debian. I have yet to have something break. The only issue I ever had was steam got uninstalled when dist-upgrading from debian 11 to 12. Promptly reinstalled, of course all my games were still on disk.
I use a cron job but have
alias updog='sudo apt update | lolcat && sudo apt upgrade -y | lolcat'
for when I feel like making sureYou should look into
unattended-upgrades
Just wait till you have 1200+ packages to upgrade. Luckily OpenSuSe Tumbleweed handles it like a champ
Just wait till you have 1200+ packages to upgrade. Luckily OpenSuSe Tumbleweed handles it like a champ
New major version of GCC? Let’s recompile everything! Takes a bit to download but yes, openQA at openSUSE does its job.
Updating pandoc on arch feels like 250 packages, so you don’t have to forget updating for this experience.
I once updated shortly before pandoc got updated, and I have the habit of running yay again so it says that no packages need updating. On this occasion however, I suddenly had more updates than before
Only for version updates. Beyond that, dnf-automatic handles those invisibly in the background. I only notice them when Firefox gets an update and demands a relaunch before it lets me keep browsing.
let me just quickly check discord … and manually download and run this update before we can automatically update again
I’m on the Ubuntu 24.04 beta and this is what I get in a day.
it didn’t break anything “so far”
Don’t worry. When you reboot, your kernel will have magically disappeared!
I have had 750+ after not using my laptop for a couple weeks lol, and like 30 flatpack updates.
Funnily enough, flatpack took longer.
Laughs in atomic.
But also yes…
Last time my Ubuntu Linux broke anything during an update is over 15 years ago. Last time a version upgrade failed was probably too over 5-10 years ago. I literally can’t remember those times
