I’d have 2 snacks, over 10 years…
:( and that was my fault both times because I didn’t read the announcement of required actions before I ran the update
Read the what now?
the announcement of required actions. it’s the update news you get when you update.
The homepage of archlinux.org hosts announcements for required manual interventions
meanwhile I update NixOS like once a month and it always seems some maintainer has pushed a broken dependency for something and thus borks my entire rebuild. Last month it was some dependency for Krita, This month it’s some dependency for Lutris.
I need to get off NixOS. while it makes doing hard things easy, it’s infuriating when the easy things break and break often. But It’s like some abusive relationship, I want to leave NixOS but i’m so god damn addicted/in love with it and I always end up going back.
I’ve been using arch (Cachyos) for almost a year and the single time I had to roll back was because I didn’t read the notes, just ran the update. Totally my fault. Used the btrfs snapshot roll back and everything was fine.
Additionally, A update can ship a new stock version of a config that has fancy new options and some deleted ones, and your modifications to it in
/etccan conflict.Arch can either backup your version as
.pacsaveor install the updated file as.pacnew. It’s your task to merge your modifications to the updated configs, and these files can slowly pile-up over time until something breaks.
So you’re going on a diet then?
genuinely what’s up with all those arch update memes? arch user of 5 years with no reinstalls, it “broke” on me exactly once lately when Lua switched versions and borked AwesomeWM. the fix was looking at the output to understand the problem and running “pacman -S lua54” or whatever version. like, that’s it
I’ve literally had more problems with Ubuntu and Rocky upgrades (tho as with most things Linux, its mostly user fault with custom repositories and all but that’s a moot point because I use AUR on Arch too and that’s been fine)
Arch is a do it yourself distro, which includes some maintenance - all of which is explained in the wiki during the installation process and mostly comes down to checking the news for required manual actions and looking through pacdiffs. if you skipped that part of required reading, arch might just not be for you and yea it’s Gonna break
It’s the same reason that all Windows users are music producing, Valorant pros who side hustle as Mechanical Engineers so obviously they can’t just switch to Linux.
Memes are easier than thinking
I dont read unless something breaks. Then I read and learn more about my system then before. I’ve had 3 breakdowns. 2 of them were me fucking with things until they broke. All were fixable by looking it up and working on the terminal. Took 30 minutes tops each time. What I am diligent on is back ups.
Arch is a do it yourself distro, which includes some maintenance - all of which is explained in the wiki during the installation process and mostly comes down to checking the news for required manual actions and looking through pacdiffs. if you skipped that part of required reading, arch might just not
which is fair enough and why I am on Debian (LMDE), all I really want to do is click an icon on the dock and use the program. Hell, I barely do that these days with apps starting using StartUp
Cool story
Arch skill is stored in the belly.
I’d starve this way
I can only think of 3 cases in as many years lol.
- KDE patch at beginning of the week made it so scrolling the start menu crashed the desktop, fixed in ~3 days
- LY changed the service to call it so I got booted into the TTY next time I started my PC
- There was a wifi card update which stopped my wifi from working, fixed with a power cycle.
Don’t know where arch got its reputation of being held together by hopes and prayers, maybe it was more unstable in the past?
it doesnt break, go get a meal
Omg, body shaming! The horrors… Someone made a joke about a body!
If this was a woman in the picture, it would be very upsetting wouldnt it? Thank god its a man.
