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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Any distro can break at any update. If you've ever done a major upgrade on any fixed-release distro, you have very likely experienced some sort of issue.

And the solution is very simple (and the same for all distros): Enable Snapshots, roll back if important stuff breaks.

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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

Any distro can break at any update.

Not atomic distros, at least not nearly the same risk. Every update is like a fresh install.

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[+] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 months ago

Well if a fresh install fucks up, then that means the distro itself has an issue. It's very different from how updates fail on traditional systems, which are failures of the update system and not the distro itself.

In other words, any distro can be broken, or simply incompatible with your hardware. But atomic distros get rid of an entire class of failures, where the package manager's update system bugs out and breaks the OS.

I've had bazzite kill it self twice so far on an update.

I'm very curious how this happened since I've never heard of an atomic distros borking on update. I've heard of atomic distros failing to install because of hardware incompatibility, but usually after it installs successfully, it's smooth sailing after that.

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