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[–] 17 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Can someone help explain the meme? I know what pacman -Syu does (I use arch btw) but I actually don't know why this would be a meme.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    "Arch isn't a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!"

    (Which is true until something goes wrong and now you're way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Eh. Admittedly, my experience with non-rolling distros is old, but I'd rather take "something minor breaks every couple weeks" over "I tried upgrading the system and now I can't even get working shell commands if I chroot over from a live USB".

    Admittedly, that was when I tried upgrading to Fedora Core 5 (or was it upgrading from there?), so ancient history.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It is beautiful how fedora seamlessly updates now. Can not say the same about Debian. In my current fedora system I once in a while get a notification that a new version is available, I go check the changes in the new release, I press a button in a GUI interface and the upgrade begins. Reboot and everything works.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Ah I gotcha. People are saying it will fix everything.

    I actually do use Arch, I played with distros for years and settled on Manjaro for a while. I'm rethinking that choice since they let their certs expire for the second time....

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