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I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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[–] 116 points 7 months ago (9 children)

So many of these things just seem incredibly bizarre once you're used to Linux.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Until you do a dist-upgrade and random shit breaks (:

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    At least that's usually an honest mistake, instead of some managers trying to juice their numbers through dark patterns.

    Unless, of course, you're using Ubuntu. Then it might also be a manager trying to juice their numbers.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I do a yay (sudo pacman -Syu, under the hood) every two weeks or so and shit don't break. Dunno what weird program dependencies y'all have for stuff to break so often.

    In any case, if shit broke, I have snapshots of the last 5 days and last 5 upgrades. It's automatic, not rocket science.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Dude, Arch is a rolling release, it has no dist-upgrade equivalent. You're not even in the right conversation.

    Debian, Ubuntu, .. and plenty of other distros have. Just upgrading my server from Ubuntu 22 to 24 (both LTS) took an hour or two of fixing things.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Then ... don't do that?

    Is there something that 24 had and 22 didn't and you just had to have that feature? If not, just stick with 22.

    Or if you're one of those who just has to have the latest of everything, you should be on a rolling release distro instead, and you won't have this issue.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You are the one that introduced a non rolling release distro in a generic Linux chain. It was generic Linux, then you did a comment specific to non rolling distros, then I did one specific to rolling distros.

    I wanted to highlight the disparity of the general perception that rolling distros are annoying since they might break sometimes, with the reality that non rolling distros definitely break shit when upgrading versions.

    I don't see a problem with our comment exchange.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    the general perception that rolling distros are annoying since they might break sometimes, with the reality that non rolling distros definitely break shit when upgrading versions.

    Personally, I still prefer the non-rolling distros.

    A rolling distro might break on any update, and you never know when.

    But for non-rolling, you can wait until you have available time to deal with any issues. Sure there will be issues and things that need reconfiguring -- you basically just reinstalled your whole OS. But you can choose when and if that happens, so you can schedule it for a convenient time when you've got time and energy to work on it if necessary.

    (And, personally, I wouldn't do the dist-upgrade thing at all. I just download the newest LTS version and install it as a fresh install, then port everything important over from backups. Nice fresh start with no old baggage hanging around. Often, I'd do that at the same time as a major hardware upgrade as well, so it's basically a new PC.)

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