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Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again.

I thought about trying out a Debian based distro but then I thought “why don’t I just use Debian itself (Sid, not stable/Bookworm)”.

Most if not all gaming software have a way to be installed on Debian so I don’t think that could be an issue.

Is anyone else using Sid? Am I missing something by not going with a gaming focused distro??

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[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wouldn’t flatpak update do the trick for everything running in flatpaks? And apt update/upgrade for the rest?

Yeah exactly. An update script just runs all these updates in a single command

this is what mine looks like (apparently lemmy does not like &&'s so take care with the & bits):


debupdate() {
  echo -e "##======================== Nala upgrades ============================##"
  sudo deb-get update 1> /dev/null # fetch deb-get repos ahead of time just for timing purposes
  sudo nala upgrade # nala is better than apt

  echo -e "##======================== Flatpak upgrades =========================##"
  flatpak update

  echo -e "##======================== deb-get upgrades =========================##"
  sudo deb-get upgrade

  echo -e "##======================== Rust upgrades ============================##"
  export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=true
  export RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
  rustup update && \
  cargo install-update -a # this is a custom cargo package: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-update - take care as this doesn't inherently recompile with the same flags you originally installed with

  echo -e "##======================== Homebrew upgrades ========================##"
  brew update && \
  brew upgrade

  echo -e "##======================== yt-dlp upgrades ==========================##" # I let yt-dlp manage itself
  $HOME/Applications/yt-dlp/yt-dlp -U

  echo -e "##======================== Antidote upgrades ========================##" # antidote is a zsh plugin manager
  antidote update
  sudo -u root zsh -ci 'antidote update'

  echo -e "##======================== Upgrades Finished ========================##"
}

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah okay fair enough! Thanks for sticking to the conversation. I will rebase everything to stable and goes that a try for awhile!

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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