• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    Does anyone else run updates and watch the screen like you’re some movie hacker?

    Then when it’s finish, you crack your knuckles and go, “It’s about time. 😎” but all you do is open Firefox and look at some boring website for two hours?

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      This reminds me the other day I was in my house stressed because I couldn’t install Cyberpunk 2077 on Fedora (I’m new to Linux so I don’t know much and I had been distro hopping).

      My MIL was in the house and she saw my screen filled with open terminals, documentation, lutris, wine, everything you can imagine open because I had no idea how to solve a stupid issue.

      I heard her tell my wife “wow he must be pretty busy, he must be doig something really important and it’s so impressive that he can read code like that I didn’t know he could do that”

      All I wanted to do was to play some damn game bro…

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    Damn, how many packages you feeding that thing. Post the neofetch 🤣

    Arch beenn feeling this way over last few weeks with all the kde updates basically adding “5” to end of their name.

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      It’s even worse when you have 60 packages to just hit enter to and then one that defaults to no for a conflict and you have to do it all over again.

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      Did I see that right: they added it and then removed it a few days later? Could be the other way round too.

  • Karu 🐲@lemmy.world
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    I used to run a yay -Syu on my system almost daily.

    Now, I run a pacman -Syu once every 2-3 weeks, and I only ever update a package from the AUR if I do need it updated or is there a serious vulnerability.

    Turns out I don’t have a real need to have my personal system running bleeding edge new software at all times. Sure, the updates are larger, but I no longer feel like risking my system stability on a daily basis. I’m a lot happier this way.

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    I’ve been using pop OS and it is actually kind of frustrating how I can’t seem to go a single day without notifications in the bar saying there are updates to install.

    A couple of days ago I did all of the updates, it asked for a reboot, I rebooted, and when it booted back up it had more updates than it had when I updated it.

    I think I need to turn the notifications off and I’ll just update when I remember to update.

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      Probably a kernel update that required a reboot, then a bunch more updates that had a dependency on the new kernel. I usually just click update when I jump on in the morning and let it do its thing before I get started for the day.

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        Oh, that could be nice. Maybe they’ll let me reconfigure my Tumbleweed to Slowroll

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    I literally didn’t update my fedora distro on my laptop for 2 months (because I didn’t have much use of it those last months) and I have 500+ packages to update, and on my PC with an arch-based distro, after 5 days, I have already 100 packages to update

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      I haven’t used (or updated) my laptop with Fedora for several months, I might just wipe it and install Nix.

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        Good Idea, why shouldn’t there be something like that? It would also keep the modules from being desynced if your mirrors haven’t updated them all

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    What distro are you using? I update on a weekly basis and usually have 10 - 15 updated packages.

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        I’ve done some 6k+ package updates fairly regularly with zipper never missing a beat. I know several other package managers that would have shat themselves long before that.