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People on rolling releases, how often do you update your packages? (piefed.zip)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip
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[–] 12 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Every day. There's no point being an a bleeding edge distro if you're not riding the edge 🤣

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    The horror of rebooting every day.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I shut everything down at the end of the day. Takes <30 seconds to boot up so it's not really an issue

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it'll work

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work

    I've been patching and bouncing hundreds of machines automatically. The first decade, I was concerned and then merely observant. It's been so reliable that I just stopped being concerned for the second decade. The last 5 years have been very occasionally (1%) unreliable, thanks to Lennart's cancer, but not enough that I need to give it more than a glance. EL10 is a bit of a shitshow, so maybe the slow trend since el7 is continuing.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it's fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Every day.

    The horror of rebooting every day.

    Linux doesn't need reboots for regular stuff. Proper packages can update everything from sendmail to syslog and not need a bounce.

    The only time you need a bounce is

    • the kernel, but with tech since 2001 that's not even required immediately
    • if you glance funny at dbus or systemd

    That's almost it.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Kernel updates constantly on my distro. And with all the other various library and service updates it's usually simpler to just reboot than restart everything individually anyway. So 9 times out of 10 I'm rebooting on an update.

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