There's never a wrong time to update Arch Linux!
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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No wrong times, only small periods of unfortunate times!
I think you mean thereβs never a right time to update! Youβre always rolling the dice!
So that's why they're called "rolling" releases!
/s
Roll d20
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Your Arch install just wiped itself and all your personal data, hope you had backups
"An update can wreck your bootloader with no notice, but hey, that's part of the fun!"
A wrecked bootloader is not a problem, but a lesson to keep a usb drive to be able to chroot.
Timeshift has been huge for this
Atomic distro users: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!
Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.
That's Harry Potter
Gollum, Frodo, and Gandalf are in the Harry Potter films?
Frodo has been working out it seems
Spoiler alert Snape kills Boromir
The moment you finally install arch and your realize you still feel empty inside.
The moment I finally installed Arch was then I felt "freedom" for the first time. No longer do I need to make compromises on my system and have things installed that I don't need or want. It's my system that I put together the way I like it. A bonus is that I know my system pretty well if something should break and I have the wiki to guide me
Should've installed Intel.
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He jumped into Gentoo two days after with Arch
I tried arch once. Eventually, my computer just showed a black screen on booting. I managed to fix it by resetting my bios. That was the end of that attempt at using arch. Still want to try again, though.
I had this happen once or twice, caused by bad Nvidia drivers with Wayland.
I use AMD now for my day job, haven't had a single issue in over two years. That's not to say you should use it - it's still a rolling release distro and will always have a potential to break over most other distros.
aaaand thats why i like "newbie" distros like ubuntu mint fedora and such.
i want my computer to work without a hitch and without having to maintain the OS.
And I like having my software up-to-date. It sucked ass when I was on Mint and one of my favorite programs had an update and I had to wait months for it to hit the repos.
this is why i switched from elementary. really good distro, but its based on ubuntu lts. think years instead of months. big oof.
I've been thinking about Debian and Ultramarine Linux (fedora but with drivers and less setup)
I prefer grey knights over Ultramarines.
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As a former arch linux guy, the solution to this is to be prepared by having a separate partition for home, and a bash script to reinstall f---ing everything again with a single command.
a bash script to reinstall fβing everything again
Why would you ever want to do that?
First of all, almost any Arch update induced problem can be solved by downgrading the offending package to the previous version, which handily is available in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.
Even an unbootable system (which has only happened once in my 10 years of using Arch because I didn't read important news) can be fixed this way, because you can always boot from the installation usb stick and then use arch-chroot to access your installation and fix problems.
Secondly, if the problem was indeed caused by an Arch update, you will just reinstall the problem if you run a reinstall script.
Honestly I only ever learnt Linux admin by troubleshooting my borked Arch updates, necessity being the mother of invention and all.
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I am totally ready for it, I know it's a thing, especially since I drink the forbidden nectar that is the AUR. Yet I've never had this happen even once.
New arch user. Just switched to LTS on my gaming rig. Only took 6 months to learn my lesson.
It's not the kernel but always mkinit in my case, on multiple machines. Even if i did never do nothing related. And booster/dracut and Efistub somehow never worked.
Btrfs my beloved. Things stop working? Just load a snapshot lol.
Just don't try plugging it into a Raspberry Pi 5.
No data loss, but won't work without changing your kernel. The other way around is much worse though
you can use an RPi5 to make a BTRFS drive which essentially only works on RPi5s.
I used arch over 5 years in the past. Isn't it common today checking the update news on the arch wiki before updating?
Sure it is, but we are lazy you know.
That's what snapshots are for.
EOS not once failed to update properly in over a year.
Been using EOS a lot longer and always flawless.
The only problem I have had is leaving a system too long and having to remember how to get the damn keyring to refresh. That is my biggest complaint.
I don't have time for my system to be getting borked once a week. That's why I use Debian. My system getting borked once every 2 years isn't that bad.
I don't have time for my system to be borked every 2 years. That's why I use Arch.
I have been using Arch and EOS a lot longer with no borks.
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After breaking on my notebook for the umpteenth time, i try now void. Have to fix some of my automation scripts tho.
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