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.
I’d you do every day updates, you are a sucker!
Net upgrade size should be in the negatives
Shit! Thanks! I forgot!
I heard you like updates. Have you tried Gentoo yet?
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?
Depends. How many virigns in heaven do I get?
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
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!
What the hell even is Github CLI? Is that like a Microslop clone of git or what?
It’s a CLI tool for interacting with remote repos and things like issues and PRs on GitHub.
Oh fuck I havent used my terminal buddy in two weeks and its arch.
Between what?
Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately
There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month
This is not applicable to arch tho
Each package is updated independently, you pull updates whenever you feel like it, be that monthly or every five minutes
I mean, just use any stable distro and you can live that life. Arch is good for its own reasons precisely because it’s this way.
Linux guy whipping out the “Actually, it’s a feature not a bug” line is very funny.
When the update takes 15 minutes instead of 2 hours and you have the option to pre-download it whenever you feel like, updating once a week is suddenly not a problem.
Does it take effort to be this ignorant, or were you born like this?
You like that? I’m a fan of it.
Yeah I mean, this is the benefit of the fragmentation. If you don’t want to update all the time, you just use a different distro. I know I do, I’ve run Linux for 21 years now and never once run Arch because I don’t want what it does, but we’re still on the same team, and the things they do benefit me nonetheless. There are drawbacks to the fragmentation, but this is one of the benefits.
Well… it is a feature… we are talking about Arch here, a bleeding edge distro meant to be continuously updated.
Want to update once every couple of decades? Go pick something stable like Debian (also Linux BTW).
As a rescent convert coming from Ubuntu to cachy os, the update cadence of an arch ibased distro, is something to get used to. It is also one of the main reasons behind experimenting with it. I am.using ubutntu and debian for work related workloads, where stabiloty is more important than having.the latest software. For personal use and playing around, cachy has been awesome. You control your own cadence.with updates. I am doing weekly at the moment, or whenever I need some new piece of software.
Funny because it’s true? If you want updates all the time, install Arch. If you want as few updates as possible, pick some LTS distro.
No, thank you very much, I like my CVEs and bugs being fixed as soon as possible.
