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.
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.
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.
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.