Thanks for reminding me!

> yay

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

Does it come with literature?

Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately

No, just a wiki

There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month

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.

You like that? I'm a fan of it.

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

5 minutes?

How does one go so long between updates?

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.

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

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

lmfao arch users are such losers

#debian
#stable
#roll on deez nuts

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.

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

No, thank you very much, I like my CVEs and bugs being fixed as soon as possible.

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).

Between what?

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!

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.

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

Does it take effort to be this ignorant, or were you born like this?

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

What the hell even is Github CLI? Is that like a Microslop clone of git or what?

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

It's a CLI tool for interacting with remote repos and things like issues and PRs on GitHub.

Net upgrade size should be in the negatives

mfw arch users are more likely to be virgins than monks.

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.

Shit! Thanks! I forgot!

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

Depends. How many virigns in heaven do I get?

I'd you do every day updates, you are a sucker!

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 👍"

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.

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.

Just don’t update

What if your favourite game 1 receives an update and your favourite game 2 gets one a couple of days later. Do you wait the month to play game 2?

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.

Zero, but you'll love the uniform

If I haven't beaten game one, it'll be more than a month.

But synchronizing patch releases so you're not bombarded with notifications would be nice, yes.

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

with rolling release comes rolling responsibility

That's it exactly. Welcome to the club.

Okaybuddyprivateinvestigator

Ah yes, reading my monthly blob of my 900 and still growing games library updates, marvelous.
Might need a couple of days to just get halfway through.

And fuck the indie games that relies on direct user feedback by the way, those pesky weekly updates! Stop trying making quality games, folks, someone here is bothered by a notification.

Oh no the lastest update made the game crash on launch? Well, wait for next month patch then, we wouldn't dare pushing an update notification, that would be horrendous!

My reaction was this guy is a Microsoft plant, there’s no way someone running arch isn’t using VSCodium if they liked VSCode

Updating your software is the most important action one can take for cyber security, so no. That is not an option.

Also the update can fail if you wait too long (mostly GPG keys, which can be fixed)

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.