I haven't had a failed kernel update in years. Used to happen very occasionally with nvidia drivers, but honestly haven't hit it in ages even with nvidia drivers.

Is this some joke I have too many known-good btrfs snapshots to understand?

I'll assume op is an Nvidia user since the only times I've had driver issues after an update was the few months when I still had a GTX card.

Switched to AMD and literally no issues the last 2 years.

This gels like it was made by a windows user

I think OP misspelled Winslop

Skill issue, non-ironically.

Usually I only remember to restart after an update because my USB drives stop working :D

Wait that's a thing? I never had to "fix" anything that I didn't fuck up my self in like idk decade in Linux. I don't really do anything fancy or nifty just games and the web. Upgraded and didn't think about it.

a driver update? whats that?

Using linux makes you forget that drivers are even a thing.

With bazzite you reboot, select the previous image, and be on your way.

This update is weird, did they put AI in my kernel?

(we got a new GEMINI episode before GTA 6)

For small updates, I typically don't reboot. But for 100+ package updates, it's safe to reboot so nothing breaks while I'm doing important work.

The only system updates that ever went wrong on my Nobara were borked because i ran out of space on /boot.

On a sidenote: seriously, why did Nobara 40 / Fedora 40 create the boot partition with a default size of 1GB? With Nvidia drivers this is not even enough for more than the rescue environment, the last 2 good configs and the new update, while also not limiting the amount of old configs to a sane amount. Can't even resize the partition outside of nuking the whole drive. Nowadays you can save space by not putting nvidia stuff on /boot as long as you are not using LUKS, but ...

spotted the Nvidia GTX user.

Literally doesn't happen to anyone using normal hardware.

The only time I've had breaking, post-update issues was a brief run with Manjaro around 2019.

Last time this happened me was 2013

Ahem... nix fixes that

Me with Manjaro and an Nvidia graphics card.

For cybersec classwork purposes we use Kali in a VM (I use virtualbox specifically), and today my display driver broke for no fucking reason lol. I wanted to fix it in TTY, but my VM had like no storage space for updates or anything. So I tried to use gparted on my VM to give it more space and I just. Could not get the new space past the swap partition and deleted it, but it fucked everything up so I just made a fresh VM. 😅

I daily drive Fedora though and it works like a dream 98% of the time. I had bluetooth hate me about a year or two ago because I didn't do a power cycle after a kernel update (didn't know that was a thing tbh), and I had WiFi crap put on me once only to mysteriously come back 2 reboots later.

Edit: Love that someone just downvoted me without their explanation as to why. Getting mad that people might have an issue one or twice with Linux and then not saying shit to help them is literally why people feel put off from it. Genuinely amazing that some people think like this.