MousePotatoDoesStuffI know about pacman, no need to say it a dozen times.
psilotopCan 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.
“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)
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.
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.