emerge -auDN @worldAlso:
gr ~/.src # (script I wrote myself to update code repos) cd ~/.src/repo make -j8 doas make installYou sure the guys running pacman are sitting on the right hand side of the bus? Seems a bit more like they should be in the back doing a skill check for luck and rolling a d20
The recent attacks have been against the AUR.
Which pacman doesn’t reference.In terms of sneaking in malicious code, that’s possible in the official repos of all operating systems, including the windows store.
The actual meme speaks more to the fact that windows update is enforced unless you jump through enormous flaming hoops, and it will measurably make your already running system worse as it forces the installation of things the user wouldn’t want (ie copilot) or removes functionality they do (classic control panel).
But you know… I use Arch btw.
My comment was just a joke man, wow
considering the malware attacks if it’s yay or paru it should probably be a d2
Sometimes it feels more like in front of the bus, and running pacman just puts you a little further up the road
The best one is where the install size is negative that peak joy.
I’m glad I’m not alone in this joy
And the system gets quicker!
I love looking at my NixOs rebuild result (using nh) and seeing -50MB.
… Then I remember I’m on nixos and it doesn’t matter much
Do you not remove older versions? How much memory are you using?
I do remove older versions, but I set the auto GC to do it at 5% storage remaining, so it doesn’t matter that the update is lighter, I actually increased the storage usage.
I also use bees to dedupe the nix store so I cannot say the raw size
Its possible to set it to do it when a set amount of storage is occupied?
It’s possible if you know the size of the disk. Here’s the docs https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Storage_optimization#Garbage_collection
nixos-rebuild switchbrh rebase image:versionimage can be any in the bazzite universe or one you pinned to save because it specifically works really well for whatever reason
zypper dup
Free as in freedom. One of the last living things from the hippie movement, by the people, for the people. No governments required.
eeehhh some of the largest contributors are sponsored by mega corps and governments, but yeah the leading ethos is FOSS
yayyay -Syu
-Syu is the default for yay, you can omit it
Learn something new everyday
You forgot - Flatpack update
I recently set up a local Flatpak cache on my home server, very much recommended if you have more than one Linux install with Flatpak in your household. Was pretty easy, too.
zypper dupMy boy zypper. Was hoping someone else liked this flavour.
Didn’t think I’d like it that much but so far I’ve really been happy with it
Me and
rpm-ostreeare having a picnic in that landscape 🥰 btwDon’t hate, but I actually like the GUI update manager in Mint. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its all the same under the hood.
That just runs apt and prints it nicely to you
Oh, I’m well aware. It’s just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?
Exactly what I expect it to do!
I notice mine has updates outside of apt, but I’ve wondered if some are just duplicates that haven’t refreshed yet.
It’s so simple but it’s huge for normies.
That is exactly the sort of behavior every gui should do.
Well, many of these softwares can’t do that properly, so…
As a long time windows user who has switched to CachyOS, I agree, even get notifications about updates
I like a GUI updater but the Plasma Discover one is so shit, it errors almost every time. I keep it for updating the odd flatpak, etc, but I always have to update from the terminal first.
I had the problem that all old kernel images were kept when updating through the GUI updater. This led to my root partition getting fuller and fuller*. I needed some really obscure commands to remove those old images, since then I only update via terminal. I guess it was some kind of bug, but for me as a standard user it was a really serious one.
*I need to say I made the mistake of splitting root and home and giving the root partition only 40 GB, because I read internet advices about needing to change my distro frequently, turns out that was not the case
same here, and I don’t know how long ago you had this problem, but the GUI can handle that as well.
If you click the View menu, and choose Linux Kernels, it’ll give you a list of all installed and available kernels. You just need to click the “remove kernels” button and check the ones you no longer need for it to clean up.
(There is an option to remove old kernels automatically in Preferences-Automation but it doesn’t seem to work)
I don’t quite remember what I set as this was more than half a year ago. But the images couldn’t be removed as easily, also not from the GUI view, as they were somehow not registered in a certain list that should have shown them. And since then I just use the terminal out of habit.
However I just found an article about Mint removing old kernels once a week automatically.
That’s actually easier on regular Mint than LMDE, but the advanced Synaptic package manager works on both to remove old kernels.
… but they’re adding a dedicated kernel management tool for both versions in the next releases if I understand their most recent blog correctly.
Like the native Mint tools, it’s basically a front-end to apt and related commands.
The key here IMO is that you decide both when and how.
No such option with Windows, but if you like the GUI and are used to using that, I don’t see why anyone of their right mind would have a problem with that.Personally I prefer to open a terminal and press the up key so I don’t have to type the command again, it takes 30 times until I get to the correct command, so it’s clearly slower, but hey we all have our little quirks.
history | grep <something I vaguely remember >
!<number of that command>
You can do reverse search but I’m too lazy to remember the sequence right now
ctrl R then type
Never tried history | grep though. Thanks for the tip!
CTRL + R for history search
Just use FZF (fuzzy search finder) with the CTRL+R keybind.
I got a new function for my bash aliases file lol
Oh thanks for this. I’ve been using
history | grep $somethingfor the longest time, but i always end up copy pasting the actual command cause i didn’t remember how to invoke the number, and copy pasting is so quick that you end up never looking up how to do it properly lol.
That’s a front end on apt. You’re just making it pretty.
Permit me to repeat what I said to a similar reply:
Oh, I’m well aware. It’s just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?
I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. I’m saying ‘one of us’.
The importamt difference between apt and windows update is not how pretty it is. You still update at your leisure in like three clicks, more if you want to be fiddly. You can choose to jot update this or that. If your connection is slow it will keep going while you go about your business and if you need to restart to finish anything it will tell you, rather than interrupting you with an implied ‘but if you don’t save every ten seconds you deserved this. Computer will be ready when its ready.’
topgrades/Linux/NetBSD/
It’s funny that
dnf updateis still a thing. Nowadys it’s just an alias fordnf upgrade. 🙂I was wondering why is there no upgrade. Turned out there’s no update!
When I returned to fedora I used
yum updateuntil I learned that that was justdnf upgradewith extra steps (yum is just a symlink to dnf5). But it works. For old farts like me who can’t stop doing things the was they’ve learned. 😉The mind learns new things. The fingers remember the old.
I used to have it aliased to dnfu
Now I’m on bazzite so I only use dnf inside containers
“Do not fuck up” is a nice command
