Seems about right
Seems about right
I see “Old Man Debian” as being more like Dick Van Dyke at 99:
Sorry, I had to.
History backs this:
I turned an older laptop with EndeavourOS on it (Arch, btw) on yesterday for the first time in like 6 months, and tried updating it… 666 updates. I knew I was in for a good time… Let me tell you, the dependency hell… I believe it was what Picasso was picturing while painting La Guernica.
Ultimately, I had to upgrade it in batches or else it would just break every time.
Yeah, it’s probably my own fault. I will usually get an error about “libalpm” or something, and then when I try to run yay again, the db.lck is present so I have to delete it, blah blah blah… Rollback with timeshift and try again, this time exclude everything but /core and /extra, get those installed, reboot, then install the rest.
This time I got it working pretty quickly due to previous experiences. The worst was the time I did it while not having enough space on my hdd to cover the entire update (but didn’t realize until after it already started). That was a fun day lol.
Yeah, life saver. If you like impossible to break OS, check out an immutable/Atomic distro (I’m on Bazzite). One command to rollback to previous build.
rpm-ostree will change your life… Lol JK. It’s cool though.