LINUS, GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!
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I wield Arch btw
I miss pmjv
Did something happen?
Rolling release?
You mean sysupdate cd /sys/src && mk install
I’ve been using Debian SID for couple years now. Updates come every couple hours. Other than some held-back packaged from time to time I had 0 issues.
BTW, everyone knows that SID (Still in Development) is named Sid Philips from Toy Story, right?
They’re actually all named for Toy Story characters
Yes they are but SID is the funniest one :)
It’s dangerous to go rolling. Take this
Nix os snapshots
That’s just save scumming, which is another form of cheating!
nixos generations have saved my ass way more than I’m willing to admit.
Great, now you have crusaders.
Now stand in awe of my wild, wild rolling!
I’ve never had any problems with updates corrupting my system. I use Mint, by the way.
Me to but i need to install somethings manualy because apt was holding old versions.
Rolling is not for the faint of heart; hell openSUSE Tumbleweed is certainly an update everyday (though they have fairly stable pushes). I really love Solus because they have a designated day of the week when they update and perform tests before pushing their updates out!
I’m on Tumbleweed for years with no major issues. I messed it up couple times myself (switching to Wayland and also pipewire among others) but there’s Snapper to save my ass. To see the update bork the system? Happened once I believe. Also solved by snapper and waiting a week.
Sure, updates are available almost daily, but they’re not forced. I update when I have time/will. Sometimes twice a week sometimes after months. Still solid.
Tumble me weeds hasn’t borked my main rigs or ‘family & friends’ puters in like 5 years. So overall I had less work compared to updating all them Debians once or twice in the same period.
(Oh, no wait, I did have one smol issue with a KDE widget or something like that.)
I was using tumbleweed last fall and there was an update that prevented my desktop from remembering where to put my icons for ~6 weeks. Not a huge issue, but interesting that you had none.
I nearly died. They say I must journey into the AUR realm for legacy GPU drivers, and I would have fallen into the text-only abyss had I updated days later (assuming I had not heard the news). My internet is too slow for regular updates. Continue onwards without me, I’ll just rest here at this long-outdated version.
Generally I don’t think rolling release is the issue itself (I have been using it for years), but it seems like every packaging/updating scheme out there sucks for one reason or another. Every time something looks like it has the answer, there is something else that works contrary to what is expected/desired.
