• prunerye@slrpnk.net
      35·
      10 months ago

      I haven’t updated my Arch install for almost 2 months. Things are going to be… seemless, probably. I do this all the time. It never breaks.

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
        14·
        10 months ago

        The worst I did, a computer without turning it on and not being updated for 2 years. Long long ago. I think I even got a huge change, don’t remember if it was a big kernel version or the change to systemd. It basically just worked and there was a single thing I had to do that was in the news page.

        Arch works fine for those who know how to read.

    • poinck@lemm.ee
      8·
      10 months ago

      I haven’t updated my Gebtoo install for past 6 months. Things are going to take a bit longer then usual.

      But since there are binaries available now, it may go faster.

    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
      82·
      10 months ago

      It’s crazy hearing all the Windows hate but then hearing this.

      This is why I prefer friendly and stable distros, I don’t have time to fix Linux every month.

      • optional@feddit.de
        5·
        10 months ago

        I‘m having (minor) trouble with updating my machine about every year or two. That’s exactly the same experience I had with Ubuntu, when installing a major upgrade every 1-2 years. The only difference is, that with Ubuntu I had 20 broken packages and no clue what to do. Now I have trouble with one or two packages and the solution can be found right on the homepage of my Distro.

        The only thing that breaks my workflow with every update is Gnome. But there’s a simple solution for that: Don’t use Gnome.

        I use Arch by the way.

    • NOPper@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      I keep meaning to set up timemachine but just roll the dice every few weeks. I think it bit me once and it was only for the weirdo wifi driver I needed and installed the lazy way.

      The blog is probably smart to check if you see anything weird in pamac but otherwise I’ve either been very lucky or things have been pretty stable.

  • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
    171·
    10 months ago

    I update my Arch when:
    a) I want to install new software
    b) Arch news mentions an update requiring manual intervention

    So, about once a month. Takes 5 minutes including a reboot and I haven’t had the slightest issue so far.

    • Johanno@feddit.de
      6·
      10 months ago

      This was way more complex 10 years ago. I quited arch after the second update broke my system and I had to fix it for a week

      • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
        7·
        10 months ago

        Linux-based systems in general have matured to a point where it’s pretty painless regardless of distro.

      • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
        5·
        10 months ago

        It’s a rolling release distro. It continuously changes. So sometimes there are changes that can’t be resolved just by updating packages.
        During the past year, there were half a dozen changes that required running an additional terminal command before an update.
        https://archlinux.org/news/ mentions when that is the case, and there’s also several ways to get a warning before you update.

        On the other hand, you never have to do an upgrade from one release version to the next (which has never once worked for me on Ubuntu LTS).

        • Undearius@lemmy.ca
          6·
          10 months ago

          Huh. I’ve been running Arch for over 7 years and I don’t think I’ve ever run an additional command before updating. Simply just updating has worked for me.

          • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
            7·
            10 months ago

            It might have worked for you, but you might have accumulated some outdated cruft and missed replacements of old packages that way.