I am ashamed to say I’m an ex-Arch user. I really liked Arch, but if you go long periods without updating it it becomes really painful when you do eventually apply updates. I got tired of finally booting some system I hadn’t touched in a year to work on something or other attempting to apply updates to it, and then spending the next 6 hours fixing everything that broke because one of the updates from last week applied before one from 10 months ago that it depended on, or some config file I touched once 3 years ago changed and needs manual fixing now.
Honestly, every OS would either break or need 6 hours to update after a year. And if you do configuration correctly (in .d directories), you don’t need to manually merge it with newer configs.
You won’t even have to ask if they use Linux, they’ll tell you.
Nobara btw.
Arch users, assemble!
And my Arch!
And my… hang on, I just need to apply this tweak from the wiki…
And my axe!
And my … kernel update! brb
<2 hours later>
NVidia.
I am ashamed to say I’m an ex-Arch user. I really liked Arch, but if you go long periods without updating it it becomes really painful when you do eventually apply updates. I got tired of finally booting some system I hadn’t touched in a year to work on something or other attempting to apply updates to it, and then spending the next 6 hours fixing everything that broke because one of the updates from last week applied before one from 10 months ago that it depended on, or some config file I touched once 3 years ago changed and needs manual fixing now.
Honestly, every OS would either break or need 6 hours to update after a year. And if you do configuration correctly (in .d directories), you don’t need to manually merge it with newer configs.
It’s been months since I’ve updated my system, I’ma be in for a ride
Nah, you’re very likely fine. I didn’t update my laptop for months, and excluding the AUR, it took 10 minutes to reboot to the newest kernel.