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How often do you update your system?
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as someone who is a dev by trade I update/backup on fridays because I think it's funny.
It's always funny, until that one day where it isn't
PC-LOAD-LETTER, wtf does that mean?!
e: You guys are making me feel old for not getting this reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
For those that don't know:
PC = Printer Cartridge (the place where you put ink or paper for it to use)
Letter = 8 1/2 x 11 inch letter sized paper, which is similar to A4
So the message means to load letter sized paper in the printer cartridge, because the sensor says it is empty.
PC in this context stands for Paper Cassette, an old HP term for the paper tray.
It means you need more paper.
Sometimes I let a Gentoo lapse on upgrades, just for the extra fun.
When I am bored. A few times per month in winter. Once or twice per summer.
whenever something is broken
You update your broken system to fix it.
I update my working system to brake it.
we are not the same
We might be the same
Update my mesa drivers mid-game? Yea fuck it why not
And then, inevitably:
but "yay" already does that
Yay ; flatpak update
*paru
Under Arch, I was stalling system upgrades for around 1 and 1/2 weeks, otherwise had a lot of library issues. This also ensure that I can install software, programs and dev libs pretty easily.
Under gentoo, I update my package DB every 2 or 3 weeks, then merge changes. Usually, I do this on monday. Working from sources, with a fixed package DB, makes things really stable.
Right now, my main workstation runs OpenSuse. I upgrade every 2 weeks.
Servers are mainly running OpenBSD and stable software. Around 2/3 weeks.
I also follow Sec Lists and Software Update feeds. If something urgent shows up I do upgrades and merges in a 12h period.
every week more or less, it's basically just as often as I remember. oh and whenever I have to update a program for security reasons, like a system wide patch or a new browser release, that sorta thing. using opensuse tumbleweed btw
I do sudo pacman -Syu as a ritual each time when I start my computer or laptop. Like, the very first thing after the system is booted. So far so good, been doing that for 7 years.
alias p="sudo pacman -Syu"
$ p $ p $ p
I had this too, but I use ctrl + r all the time (with fzf), and really have no need for that many aliases.
Used to have this, now I just sudo dnf update my life is more relaxed.
I don’t understand why Syncthing is still not version 2 on Fedora. Did I do something wrong? Did the repo changed? Apart from that, I agree, I really like Fedora on systems where I don’t want to mess with the system. But I do want to mess with my systems, that’s the point of Linux for me now :)
I didn't even know syncthing 2 was released. As a service type of software I don't really care too much for new features, I want it to be stable. Judging from this thread it wasn't really stable until a couple months ago: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-2-0-august-2025/24758/30
I guess I'm fine with that. Software for which I need the latest release I wouldn't install from package manager anyway.
I used to mess a lot on my Linux system, now I just want it to work and not have to change anything. Still on default plasma config after years, I guess I just mess with my vim config and little else.
I can say about the stability, as I use Syncthing extensively and the version 2 since day one. It had the database issue, perhaps upon migration, which lead the program to crash on my Raspberry Pi 2B with 1 GB RAM. At some point I noticed the issue, removed the database and let it rebuilt it cleanly, which did the job and fixed the issue. Plus, I made a swap partition just in case. Haven’t seen any other issues after that. That was DietPi distro, based on Debian.
I had no issues like that on Arch, but my Arch desktops, laptops, and servers are more powerful, perhaps they handled the migration better. I expect that this was some bug that was fixed later. Fedora still syncs, but I wonder when would they update the repo, or if that’s me that wasn’t attentive somewhere and I need to change the repo. Maybe they follow the topic closer.
I have a script I run daily (named daily) that makes a timeshift backup, checks for updates from pacman, then checks for updates from the AUR. I'm very fond of it :]
Does paru -Syu not also include pacman, or do you just prefer to do pacman first?
I have never heard of paru until this very moment. I will look into it, thanks!
I’ve been using yay for years, and it is sufficient. First time I’ve heard of paru.
Other than being written in rust, how does paru improve the experience of AUR wrapping?
Googling it, it just seems like yay but in rust and it shows PKGBUILD by default. Still cool to find alternative tools though
To be honest, it's just what I've been using since I switched to Cachy half a year ago. There was no conscious decision made between yay or paru.
I think Go and Rust are both great languages, but there are apparently some speed benefits from using rust/paru. That's not anything I can factually confirm, just what I've heard.
I doubt that speed in a package manager would depend greatly on programming language choice. A package manager downloads the repository index, evaluates your current environment, decides what packages you need and then downloads them. You may get minor speed improvements due to a more performing programming language, but we're talking about milliseconds differences in a process that likely takes several minutes. I wouldn't take that into account when choosing across options. Indeed speed can greatly vary across package managers, but that mainly depends on implementation; as such you may have a package manager implemented in a slower language that is faster than one implemented in a faster language.
If I have to choose a package manager, I wouldn't even consider speed and rather evaluate functionality. I don't know paru, I imagine it allows doing what yay allows doing and as such I'd be satisfied with either of them.
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