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IIRC archlinux is pretty conservative at enabling services by default after installing, so installing every package should not take too much system resource asi
by blahgeek 5y ago
IIRC archlinux is pretty conservative at enabling services by default after installing, so installing every package should not take too much system resource aside from disk space.
I’m curious about doing the same thing in Ubuntu
- __del__ 5y agoi believe it's a rite of passage for any new linux user on a dpkg-based linux distribution to install synaptic and with it every possible package.
- grapescheesee 5y agoIt is a lot more fun trying to see how many you can uninstall before it really breaks and how. Well mainly tried on Ubuntu. Best done from a separate TTY and watch the main X user window.
- globular-toast 5y agoI managed to do that accidentally once. Whatever I was trying to do seemed to be taking a bit longer than usual and there was too much hard disk activity (come to think of it, I haven't had hard disks in my workstations for years and forget there used to be an audible way to tell that lots of IO was happening). It was when things started to disappear from my desktop that I realised something was really wrong. I killed the process and assessed the damage. The only text editor left was vi (not vim). Using the apt log I was able to recover the system by simple reinstalling all packages it had uninstalled. Fun times.
- Macha 5y agoArch won't auto enable systemd services, but that doesn't mean e.g. Plasma won't load all installed plugins.