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.
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 👍”
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
Net upgrade size should be in the negatives
5 minutes?
How does one go so long between updates?
That’s my secret; I’m always updating.
Shit! Thanks! I forgot!
I’d you do every day updates, you are a sucker!
Thanks for reminding me!
> yay
Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, archlinux?
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!
mfw arch users are more likely to be virgins than monks.
Does it come with literature?
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.
No, just a wiki
I heard you like updates. Have you tried Gentoo yet?
Step one, uninstall garbage like Deno, VSCode, fucking GitHub CLI.
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!
Oh fuck I havent used my terminal buddy in two weeks and its arch.
Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately
Between what?
