MousePotatoDoesStuffFeb 26

I know about pacman, no need to say it a dozen times.

https://lemmy.world/post/43605288

Show threadpsilotop
Can someone help explain the meme? I know what pacman -Syu does (I use arch btw) but I actually don’t know why this would be a meme.
Feb 26 at 5:39pmWeb
Show threadBassman1805Feb 26

“Arch isn’t a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!”

(Which is true until something goes wrong and now you’re way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)

Show threadpsilotopFeb 26

Ah I gotcha. People are saying it will fix everything.

I actually do use Arch, I played with distros for years and settled on Manjaro for a while. I’m rethinking that choice since they let their certs expire for the second time…

Show threadJesus_666Feb 26

Eh. Admittedly, my experience with non-rolling distros is old, but I’d rather take “something minor breaks every couple weeks” over “I tried upgrading the system and now I can’t even get working shell commands if I chroot over from a live USB”.

Admittedly, that was when I tried upgrading to Fedora Core 5 (or was it upgrading from there?), so ancient history.

Show threadranzispaFeb 27
It is beautiful how fedora seamlessly updates now. Can not say the same about Debian. In my current fedora system I once in a while get a notification that a new version is available, I go check the changes in the new release, I press a button in a GUI interface and the upgrade begins. Reboot and everything works.