I get that when I forget to update a Ubuntu VM for a week.

i'm like 80/20 if this is just going to straight bork the machine.

Execute order

Sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt auto remove -y

Needs a more concise order name.......

cd ~
nano .bash_aliases

At the end of the file

alias executeOrder="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt auto remove -y"

Ctrl+X
Y
Enter.

source .bash_aliases

There. Now it's executeOrder

Edit : .bash_alias(es?) should be in the home folder. Switch to it with cd ~

that's what backups are for.

If it's a vm then snapshots are a godsend. Update didn't work? Revert.

This feels relevant, I recently did my first apt upgrade because I was a dumbass and should have done npm/npx upgrade.

So.... The quick trial of a new API/SDK turned into a pant shitting wait to see if I broke my system.

It all worked out in the end

So much hassle just for routine update. Windows seems more stable in comparison.

Me when I reinstall a game from Steam that I also modded through the Steam Workshop.

Game installs in 5 minutes. The next hour (or day if it was ARMA 3; all the custom maps are HUGE) is the worshop mods getting downloaded and installed 😭

You either test your backups or your lack of backups tests you

I used to get this with Tumbleweed by the time I’ve finished my previous update.

I jest of course but I once had to update it after being away for a week and it had like 14 GB of updates. By the time it finished another 450 MB of updates were available.

Arma3 mods were the reason that I learned steam cli has an insanely low ttl.

Steam is the only thing I have ever seen hit network speeds that hit the limit of what I pay for from my ISP.

I had 100 Mbps internet. It hit the full limit but some of those mods were BIG.

Tiny nits:

1. apt dist-upgrade is more potentially destructive.
2. It's apt autoremove (no spaces)

Otherwise, I do this every morning on my work machine. It's very satisfying to have updates.

Net update size: -50MB

Try using LyX on Tumbleweed. 5000 packages is not unusual

Shit is snappy as hell

Arch linux after not updating for 2 days.

I last updated my Arch install on 2026-04-22...

Your ISP must have a colocated Steam cache.

I'm my case, steam has servers in my city. It's quite satisfying seeing a gigabit line saturated for gigabytes on end

In glorious Nixos when you switch channel

What's the processing machine for? What do you process on it?

all i can think of is video editing... that doesn't make sense tho.

Try Slowroll for that kinda stuff. Updates just massively roll in in waves, and numbers above 4000 are not unusual

Machine learning.

It's a strix halo machine so I can go big on ram (up to 128gb).

Currently it's set up for a research project that' coming to an end. In this paper we're using time series climate and satellite imagery data to model the long term climate and ecological impact of plantation agriculture.

I basically paused updating because the set up was working and I didn't want to have it break on me mid project.

edit: also used for piss and shit posting

There's a flag for upgrade that will do an update as well. I don't have it memorized, but you don't need to "update and upgrade" anymore.

Upgrading Gentoos that had not been upgraded for a really long while used to be one of my favourite things to do.

It that point, you might as well do a clean install, because something will get fucked up.

I'm litterally shocked. It took about 30 minutes, I restarted and its working like it was no-thing-but-a-chicken-wing...

windows just completely screwed up another update...it's like, what, the 5th or so this year alone? so almost every month or so they screw up real big.

including some that bricked systems completely...

at least atomic distros let you roll back without hassle...

And 80 of them are just VLC player

More like 2nd or 3rd. And with Linux it's a lottery every time.

Steam also has servers in my city as well. Once I got gigabit, my drives became the bottleneck.