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    [–] Niberius@sopuli.xyz 87 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Thanks for reminding me!

    > yay

    If arch is so hard why are all their users so joyous going yay all the time?

    [–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 73 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    5 minutes?

    How does one go so long between updates?

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

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

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    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

    [–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Does it come with literature?

    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 weeks ago

    No, just a wiki

    [–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Debian does! :3

    [–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Depends. How many virigns in heaven do I get?

    [–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
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    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Zero, but you'll love the uniform

    [–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    That's it exactly. Welcome to the club.

    [–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

    [–] nothingworked@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 weeks ago

    with rolling release comes rolling responsibility

    [–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    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 πŸ‘"

    [–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I literally completed an update the other day and by the time it was done there were new updates. The update notification is useless, lol.

    [–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

    ✊ The struggle is real

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago

    Net upgrade size should be in the negatives

    [–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
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    [–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] redsand 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

    [–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

    [–] kaito@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

    just set up a cron job to upgrade your system every 5 minutes

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Update, reboot, schedule another downtime immediately

    [–] motruck@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    That'll be three gigs to download hut we will give you 200 megs of free space back, as far as what's changed? We've further optimized the system for you and you can enjoy using it as before ie more better but nothing you'll notice.

    I understand why but updates that do nothing but keep you up to date are annoying for the user.

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    [–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I borked my caxhyOS install yesterday with a sudo pacman -Syu......

    Took me about 5 min to fix restoring one of the snapshots in the bootloader

    [–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Shit! Thanks! I forgot!

    That's nothing compared to rolling release atomic distributions. I use secureblue, and every time I do a rpm-ostree upgrade I have a 1-2GB update D:

    [–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

    [–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

    "Stateful updates? In this economy?" - some NixOS user

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