OP hasn’t used AUR much
You don’t even have to use the aur are to have breaking changes. Most recently they changed how vlc was packaged. And broke it causing a lot of problems for users.
Or the Linux firmware package change that required manual intervention to resolve.
That’s pretty rare. I ran arch for years and my only issues were from AUR or trying to update extremely out of date machines.
I’ve run arch for years as well. It happens nearly yearly. I’ve had updates break completely several times. Partial updates. That required significant manual intervention. Etc Etc Etc. Meanwhile my Debian and fedora systems haven’t had a hitch in years.
I’ve moved on to gentoo. All the customization and if something breaks I can be sure it’s my fault.
I haven’t installed gentoo in 20 years. I still like arch for it’s glaring flaws. And I do like BSDs ports etc. I probably should go through a gentoo install again to see how it changed. Last time I ran it. Was on a first generation Pentium.
On a beefy machine it’s nice. Chromium takes forever.
Upgraded three systems to Debian 13 in the last few days. Went without a hitch. One Proxmox, one media server and player, one workstation.
Wayland still doesn’t work, but that’s apparently because of the noVideo drivers.
Yay
Paru team chiming in 🫡
yet another yogurt
Break your system and it’s broken.
How unexpected!
Y u no pipe yes into apt 🙃
I find debian more stable than arch, especially when updating.
presses the big blue ‘update’ button in GNOME Software in Fedora
Checks ‘automatic updates’ box in Discover
Do you actually need - Syyu or is - Syu fine? I have only really used the latter.
The only difference is that -Syyu forces the database to update
To explain what database means in short, it tells pacman what packages are available in different repos (e.g. core, extra). In some rare cases, the time of the database update may be incorrectly marked, and pacman would not know there are new packages/versions. -Syyu should be used in this case.
yayThe second y in
Syyuis almost always unneeded and just wastes time and bandwidth. Is i remember correctly, it only makes sense when for example you switch mirrorsujust updateIsn’t that just
topgradeI’m honestly not sure. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/system_files/desktop/shared/usr/share/ublue-os/just/10-update.just
The bazzite motd says use
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