not_IOHighlight of my Morning
ExtremeDullardThe poster would be more convincing if you hadn’t inverted
apt-get update and apt-get upgrade…
MimicJarI mean technically you did “update” the OS. It wasn’t a particularly useful command by going second, but I bet it was fast.
groetMaybe OP knew all along that they wanted to use the previous package list to upgrade and fetch the new one after! Maybe we’re all actually inverting it…
(I’m just being silly, I recognize that an old package list would probably cause issues with installing or upgrading packages.)
(I’m just being silly, I recognize that an old package list would probably cause issues with installing or upgrading packages.)
No problems anywhere you can always install older versions from a repo.
Upgrade -> update two days ago and then again today will leave me with exactly the same packages as it would if I ran it correctly the first time and then not at all today. Just the state of two days ago.
SamskaraThat’s the best part of this post. Windows is fully automatic, while on Linux you need to tell apart two terminal commands with confusing naming.
etaNot necessarily. On Arch it’s just “sudo pacman -Syu” and on Fedora it’s just “sudo dnf update”.
I just type "yay".
See, it’s super easy on Linux, just different on every distribution.
If you’re too stupid to remember one or two commands there are GUI applications available where you can click “a button” to update your system.
Or make an alias with the update command and name it “update”. This works on every distro.
If you can’t remember one or two commands then you are in fact stupid. With that said, Linux is for everyone.
There are distros that have auto updates as a feature they ship (Linux Mint comes to mind). There are distros that are basically impossible to break and there are distros where you are responsible for building your own system and keeping it functioning. It all depends on your own needs. Linux gives you the freedom to choose and there are more than one way to do things.
On linux, you can do what you wish. You can use a desktop environment with a GUI software center that pops up a notification that prompts you to install updates. Or update by opening the software center and selecting the ones you want. Or use the terminal commands. Or write an alias so you can type “update” and have it execute all your commands in the right order. And you can use your computer during updates, there’s no mandatory update during shutdown/boot.
If I try to update my GPU while I’m running a game sometimes it falls back to integrated graphics and gets slow+warm til I restart.
fun fact: GPU drivers on Windows run in userspace, because MS got fed up with all the blue screens they caused and kicked them out of the kernel. if the GPU driver crashes, the screen will go dark for a second and then flick back on. if the GPU driver can’t restart then Windows will fall back to software rendering.
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CatoblepasOn Mint I set up an automatic update schedule and have been double checking it when I think to. All GUI, no terminal commands. So far it’s been seamless. (Knock on wood)
You dont though. Most linux also have an automatic/GUI option.
You think ive touched the apt commands in linux…?
I mean, youre right, but thats because i like to be hands on. Updates i usually install via the updates UI of linux distros ( or is that a debian/ubuntu/mint only thing?) and installations can be done via the software ui so you dont have to know the commands at all hehe
I mean, youre right, but thats because i like to be hands on. Updates i usually install via the updates UI of linux distros ( or is that a debian/ubuntu/mint only thing?) and installations can be done via the software ui so you dont have to know the commands at all hehe
KiuynThank you, I mostly use pacman but have Debian (rasbian?) on raspberry pi and was fully willing to believe I’d been updating it wrong this whole time
Ging
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