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    [–] Niberius@sopuli.xyz 90 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Thanks for reminding me!

    > yay

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    [–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    5 minutes?

    How does one go so long between updates?

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

    That's my secret; I'm always updating.

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    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, archlinux?

    [–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Does it come with literature?

    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago

    No, just a wiki

    [–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

    Debian does! :3

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    [–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Depends. How many virigns in heaven do I get?

    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Zero, but you'll love the uniform

    [–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I did some research. Is this an apt representation of what I can expect? If it is, I'm in!

    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    That's it exactly. Welcome to the club.

    [–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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    [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Okaybuddyprivateinvestigator

    [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

    No one lies on the internet when cypherpunk is on the case!

    [–] nothingworked@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago

    with rolling release comes rolling responsibility

    [–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    This is not even a meme. I updated my laptop yesterday and here I am doing yet another upgrade with 400mb+ dl size.

    [–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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 πŸ‘"

    [–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I literally completed an update the other day and by the time it was done there were new updates. The update notification is useless, lol.

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    [–] jdr@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Step one, uninstall garbage like Deno, VSCode, fucking GitHub CLI.

    [–] three@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    REEEEE someone is using their computer not how I would use it!

    lmfao arch users are such losers

    #debian #stable #roll on deez nuts

    [–] jdr@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

    Joke's on you buddy, I'm using Trixie just like you!

    [–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

    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!

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    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago

    Net upgrade size should be in the negatives

    [–] redsand@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago

    I heard you like updates. Have you tried Gentoo yet?

    [–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Just install pamac, it can update every time you shut down. I don't mind it updating every day if I don't have to babysit it.

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    [–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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    [–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 month ago

    Oh fuck I havent used my terminal buddy in two weeks and its arch.

    [–] kaito@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

    just set up a cron job to upgrade your system every 5 minutes

    [–] motruck@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    That'll be three gigs to download hut we will give you 200 megs of free space back, as far as what's changed? We've further optimized the system for you and you can enjoy using it as before ie more better but nothing you'll notice.

    I understand why but updates that do nothing but keep you up to date are annoying for the user.

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    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

    Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately

    [–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

    Shit! Thanks! I forgot!

    [–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I borked my caxhyOS install yesterday with a sudo pacman -Syu......

    Took me about 5 min to fix restoring one of the snapshots in the bootloader

    [–] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

    Snapshots? What are you, a medical institution?

    That's nothing compared to rolling release atomic distributions. I use secureblue, and every time I do a rpm-ostree upgrade I have a 1-2GB update D:

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