Op, it’s been an entire day… How’d did it go?
I fear the worst
2,409 updates could mean like two days of restarts… I’m just going to turn on some bagpipe music and stand on a hill in the wind looking out at the computer shaped clouds on the horizon.
Light the signal fires.
He’s dead, Jim
Something i can say, did you have ready an snapshot of the system??, cuz too may things can go wrong with that numbre of updates.
If something like that happens, maybe the best option would be to just install a new fresh os lol
Troubleshooting everything that goes wrong will take my lifetime
Praying for your computer, friend
That clock placement is giving me anxiety
Yeah, that’s some ugly desktop environment.
That’s probably one of the updates
The clock updates every minute.
I haven’t updated it in years for fear of this Y2K issue. What’s ahead for me guys?
You’re not missing much. There are no new features, and a bug related to the year 2038 was introduced.
What a resource hog
what’s there to not like about 7:40PM?
Maybe I’m just screaming into the void here, but does it seem like, as a person who is still relatively out of touch with linux, I don’t necessarily have to update my Arch distribution whenever there are new updates available? I could theoretically just go on downloading new programs, uninstalling old ones, using everything as it sits until theoretically something breaks?
You should always run a full upgrade when installing a new package to make sure your versions are all in sync. Like if your new package is looking for version 1.1 and you have 1.0 installed, the new package won’t work. In general, everything should be installed with ‘pacman -Syu’ not just ‘pacman -S’
If you don’t install any new packages, then no you don’t need to upgrade anything. You’re just missing out on security patches and upgraded features. It’s worth running occasional upgrades.
You’ll run into security and stability problems if you put it off for too long.
Iirc, the Arch wiki says you should synchronize all packages while adding new ones, and it’s technically unsupported. It might work in some cases, but personally I didn’t have to do much to not be able to launch something because symbols missing in libraries or no such file altogether. To avoid problems it’s better to sync packages fully at least once in a while.
I don’t necessarily have to update my Arch distribution whenever there are new updates available
Clearly, op agrees
@Magnolia_@lemmy.ca it’s been 8 hours, did you make it?
@Magnolia_@lemmy.ca it’s been almost 16hrs. Have you lost everything? Has your uncalculated gamble paid off?
He ded
He is in progress
And they were never heard from AGAIN! Oooooooo It is horror month, and that’s pretty scary! :-D
Don’t try to install Arch after midnight.
How long should you wait before installing? It was midnight over 9 hours ago so am I good to go?
And that is why I use Opensuse tumbleweed, no worries ever (zypper takes a snapshot before and after each upgrade, single command to roll back)
Not to mention that a two or three thousand package update is rookie numbers for zypper.
Basically reinstalling your OS because of an GCC update is the only gripe I have with Tumbleweed.
I wonder though, did I have the same with Arch? I don’t remember.
What os and de are you on? It looks pretty clean.
That’s bog standard KDE, I have no idea about the distro tho
The de is kde plasma
Looks like Manjaro to me
KDE Plasma is one of the default options which you can install with Manjaro. Manjaro is the Linux distro, but KDE Plasma is the DE (desktop environment/GUI).
Thoughts and prayers fren
Side note: “I’mma” is a contraction of the whole phrase “I’m going to” or “I’m about to” so it’s followed immediately by the verb indicating what you’ll be doing:
“I’mma rawdog this sucker without backups.”
Yes, I added sucker, because it’s going to suck up all your time and data, sucka!
I’ve always thought of it as I am gonna
That’s the lightly slangy version I would normally use, but as long as I was being pedantic I thought I’d better avoid any contractions in that part.
Op should have used “I’m finna rawdog this jawn no backup style”
For no reason other than mixed US slang from different regions sounds funnier to my ear
“no backup style” hits just right.
Becareful with glibc
I’ve got a similar problem - but I can’t update because my /var and /root partitions are full. I’ll do a fresh install and use btrfs for the snapshots, I think I fucked my current system somehow and going back would’ve fixed it.