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My problem is i don't know what gets borked immediately after updating unless it's catastrophic. Ie i've gone a fair bit of time before i realized some specific

My problem is i don't know what gets borked immediately after updating unless it's catastrophic. Ie i've gone a fair bit of time before i realized some specific functionality of some program no longer works due to some unrelated change in an underlying dependency that i was unaware of. Oof. Granted Btrfs sounds great though, i've not used that. It would certainly help.

seanw444 4y ago
Yeah that's true. That's where the "largely" part of my comment does some work. I just take occasional snapshots before I do things that I'm concerned may be catastrophic. But it definitely won't catch everything. It helps that I run Arch, and I update packages once a day, which only leaves me with under 40 (small) packages usually. So a quick cursory glance at which ones are updating usually tells me what to be cautious of. Display driver update, kernel update, etc. If I'm not sure what went wrong, but I at least have a working snapshot, then I can get done what I need to get done, and then go back to troubleshooting. Rather than just having a broken system regardless.