uderecife

So many factors at play.

The number of packages installed, the use of externally unsupported repos, the distro you use, reliability of their packaging system, how much you deviated from the baseline customization, and probably more.

Keeping track of everything off what and how much you changed may prove difficult. But it helps taking notes of how you solved the more complicated issues.

With time you learn to live with the inevitability of something breaking. You update less often, and only when you really have to. Repairing stuff becomes less overwhelmeming with time.

24 years exclusively running it.

Short answer: magic.

Long answer: a stressful full week trying to get everything right, followed by a long, blissful period forgetting how hard it was to get it up and running like magic.

That’s why I log in through tty. What comes next is anyone’s guess. Nerd wizardry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

An obscure phenomenon for much of the time since its discovery, carcinisation has become more widely known since 2019, having been the subject of a popular internet meme.

And

Beginning in 2019, carcinisation has found popularity as an internet meme. This parodies carcinisation, purporting that crabs possess the “ideal body plan” and conceptualizing the evolution of other animal groups, especially vertebrates, of eventually developing crab-like bodies (often being examples of speculative evolution).