There’s never a wrong time to update Arch Linux!
I think you mean there’s never a right time to update! You’re always rolling the dice!
So that’s why they’re called “rolling” releases!
/s
Roll d20
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Your Arch install just wiped itself and all your personal data, hope you had backups
No wrong times, only small periods of unfortunate times!
“An update can wreck your bootloader with no notice, but hey, that’s part of the fun!”
A wrecked bootloader is not a problem, but a lesson to keep a usb drive to be able to chroot.
Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.
Spoiler alert Snape kills Boromir
That’s Harry Potter
Gollum, Frodo, and Gandalf are in the Harry Potter films?
Frodo has been working out it seems
Timeshift has been huge for this
Atomic distro users: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!
That’s what snapshots are for.
After breaking on my notebook for the umpteenth time, i try now void. Have to fix some of my automation scripts tho.
Can’t complain about Arch myself, but I prefer my software to not change. I’m back on Mint 22 with Plasma 5 and Wayland and I absolutely love it.
I used arch over 5 years in the past. Isn’t it common today checking the update news on the arch wiki before updating?
Sure it is, but we are lazy you know.
Why would you need to do that? Just use something stable.
Recovering Arch user here. I really like Bazzite!
New arch user. Just switched to LTS on my gaming rig. Only took 6 months to learn my lesson.
It’s not the kernel but always mkinit in my case, on multiple machines. Even if i did never do nothing related. And booster/dracut and Efistub somehow never worked.
He jumped into Gentoo two days after with Arch
EOS not once failed to update properly in over a year.
Been using EOS a lot longer and always flawless.
The only problem I have had is leaving a system too long and having to remember how to get the damn keyring to refresh. That is my biggest complaint.
As a former arch linux guy, the solution to this is to be prepared by having a separate partition for home, and a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again with a single command.
a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again
Why would you ever want to do that?
First of all, almost any Arch update induced problem can be solved by downgrading the offending package to the previous version, which handily is available in
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/. This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.Even an unbootable system (which has only happened once in my 10 years of using Arch because I didn’t read important news) can be fixed this way, because you can always boot from the installation usb stick and then use
arch-chrootto access your installation and fix problems.Secondly, if the problem was indeed caused by an Arch update, you will just reinstall the problem if you run a reinstall script.
Ah my last reinstall was because of important news I didn’t read.
This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.
Well you see, I didn’t know that haha, I know there are better ways to deal with a “defective” arch update but to me, that was the easiest, laziest way to do it and it worked most of the time. I have to admit this was a “me” problem I’m not blaming arch it’s just that I grew tired of things breaking because I didn’t read the news before doing pacman -Syu.
Honestly I only ever learnt Linux admin by troubleshooting my borked Arch updates, necessity being the mother of invention and all.
You reinvented NixOS
I want to install NixOS on a laptop that I have lying around BTW.
Never had problems with that tbh, only with NVidia. Even on testing.
I had a problem with a Intel HD4000 on arch.
I don’t have time for my system to be getting borked once a week. That’s why I use Debian. My system getting borked once every 2 years isn’t that bad.
I have been using Arch and EOS a lot longer with no borks.
I don’t have time for my system to be borked every 2 years. That’s why I use Arch.
Same. I started learning Linux on a rolling release distro and it was so frustrating having things Just Work one day and then be broken the next.
Was it Manjaro? Just asking…
The moment you finally install arch and your realize you still feel empty inside.
The moment you install arch and you realise your computer feels empty inside.
Should’ve installed Intel.
The moment I finally installed Arch was then I felt “freedom” for the first time. No longer do I need to make compromises on my system and have things installed that I don’t need or want. It’s my system that I put together the way I like it. A bonus is that I know my system pretty well if something should break and I have the wiki to guide me
