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 š¼ I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive
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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.
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. š Seems like a win-win. š
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 firefoxshould be fine...You didn't hear it from me. š¤š„ø
The āunless you know what youāre doingā part tells me itās 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, itās awesome. If you break your system, you get to keep the pieces and learn something new along the way.
Iām utilizing this liberty by being a lazy admin who updates things like eventuallyā¢ or soonā¢. Havenāt learned any hard lessons yet, so I guess itās ok. Or maybe I just know what Iām doingā¦
Agreed. š Arch and pacman definitely adheres to this philosophy of "unless you know what you're doing". Pacman allows this type of selective upgrade, and it allows to ignore any package you like during a system/all-package upgrade, which may or may not break the system.
You can also post-install make changes to the database of installed packages, like change the install reason for a package (as a dependency or as explicitly installed).
All these things are happily executed without warning. š
The reason for the need to check the news is that the system can have any combination of package versions installed, and requiring manual intervention by the user in any quirky upgrade situations helps to keep the complexity down of the system and package manager. I think it's worth the low complexity.
The overhead of checking the website is super low. It's basically the same as checking the release notes when there's a new version of Ubuntu, or whatever other software you might be curious of. Same thing.