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If you're not willing to do full system upgrades on the regular, why are you running a rolling-release distro? That's literally the whole point.
by vinceguidry 5y ago
If you're not willing to do full system upgrades on the regular, why are you running a rolling-release distro? That's literally the whole point.
- pengaru 5y agoI plan on abandoning this experiment as soon as I have the time and interest. In my comment above I mentioned this was a spare laptop, my primary laptop which ran debian abruptly failed pressing this thing into regular daily use, so I used the Arch install I originally put on it for an egpu experiment.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoHonestly, running pacman -Syu on an Arch machine that sat untouched for four years was a much better experience than any of the Ubuntu and Debian dist-upgrades I’ve had to suffer through. I did have to go and merge the .pacnews, but that’s it. (Granted, for Ubuntu the last one was something like 9.10 to 10.04, things might have improved since then.) So having an infrequently-updated machine is entirely feasible, as long as you don’t try partial upgrades. (Except that one time when the StrongSwan upstream decided it was a good idea to rename their units in such a way that an old configuration with ended up running the wrong IPsec daemon after an upgrade. That was a frustrating couple of hours.)