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. ๐" 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...
Terminal = hacker
Why couldn't you?
If you have the gog version it's not particularly user friendly to get those up and running if you're a new Linux user
You can just point to it in lutris an choose wine ge and it just works for me
Can't you just install it in bottles?
I'm sure you can, but not really my point. Linux gaming outside of steam is horrifying and trying to install anything as a new user is bloody impossible.
Just use heroic
Here's the thing - you were learning some valuable troubleshooting skills and some details about the workings of your operating system. The reward was playing a game.
One day you'll realize you've passively developed enough skill to use on the job.
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade | lolcat
My arch install every 5 minutes
while [ true ]; do pacman -Syu --noconfirm; done
Yeah no i want to know if an update breaks my system
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.
Same, Iโm planning to switch to OpenSUSE slowroll when it comes out of beta.
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.
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.
All haskell
I use Slackware. What are these "updates" you speak of?
But you updated glibc, right? Right?
Damn it, I shuld turn my PC on and update it ๐ . This is gonna be pain, after 2 months.
I know
All those haskell modules
I hate that. Can't they make a "haskell-all" package?!
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
What distro are you using? I update on a weekly basis and usually have 10 - 15 updated packages.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
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.
I'll just stick with Debian and Fedora
yay
paru
aura
Just updated my Tumbleweed. Last update was from 5 june ๐๐
You didn't update it since June? Wow, you really know how to get the good side of rolling releases.
Me jumping from debian stable to sid
I like Fedora but the daily notifications about updates is annoying
Haven't updated in 2+ months... It's gonna be a carefully read when I do it ๐ฎโ๐จ
only 2.1 updates, man they really rolling out updates if they using non integers
Laughs in Kinoite with automatic upgrades on (it's safe, flatpaks and most distroboxes too). I reboot sometimes and it's all done in ~20sec.
It's safe until someone oopsies the repos and mislabels the i386 packages as x64.
Ubuntu did this a few months back. I spent hours trying to fix it afterwards. Seems they got it fixed decently quick so it was likely just bad timing on my part.
It's safe because it's immutable with intrinsic rollback. Also fedora.