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I guess I'm kind of surprised that people are OK with updating infrequently. Don't your distros distribute security updates? How long do you wait before applyin

• adultSwim 12y ago
  I just want to use my computer. I don't want to just constantly administer it instead. I usually don't want new features. I'd often rather have what's already there fully working. The lack of finished software available (e.g. TeX) is astounding.
• trey-jones 12y ago
  In my case I might have had arch on a machine that just sat in a corner for a month. Boot it up -> update -> brick.
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• deong 12y ago
  I usually do updates about once a week. If I need to install a new package, I'll usually refresh everything then as well. But occasionally it's longer than that. I just forget for a week or so, go on holiday, etc. Most of the time, I come back, do an "Syu", and it's fine. Occasionally though, things go pear-shaped. Once or twice I've needed to manually fetch packages from one of the archive sites and manually copy it into pacman's cache directory to get things up and going again.