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https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version šŸ‘¼ I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I can't be bothered to update every day, or even every week. LOL. More like once a month or so, which means that it's usually 100 MB or more and there's at least one package that is more or less critical. When I start updating, and before hitting Y, I pause for a second and realise I should totally check the news first. Usually, it's fine, but over the years, there have been a few times when intervention was necessary.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

If you only update once a month (which should be fine as well, definitely), then you only need to check the news page once a month too, less often than I do probably. šŸ˜„ Seems like a win-win. šŸ‘Œ

You can also selectively update packages of course, but this is strongly ill-advised unless you know what you're doing.

But like, doas pacman -Sy firefox should be fine...

You didn't hear it from me. 🤐🄸

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 6 hours ago

The ā€œunless you know what you’re doingā€ part tells me it’s totally worth it in some highly exceptional situations. You just need to be able to justify spending a few hours to figure out exactly how to do it safely.

Best thing about Linux is that you can do literally anything you want. If it works, it’s awesome. If you break your system, you get to keep the pieces and learn something new along the way.

I’m utilizing this liberty by being a lazy admin who updates things like eventuallyā„¢ or soonā„¢. Haven’t learned any hard lessons yet, so I guess it’s ok. Or maybe I just know what I’m doing…

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