It's dangerous to go rolling. Take this
Nix os snapshots
It's dangerous to go rolling. Take this
Nix os snapshots
I nearly died. They say I must journey into the AUR realm for legacy GPU drivers, and I would have fallen into the text-only abyss had I updated days later (assuming I had not heard the news). My internet is too slow for regular updates. Continue onwards without me, I'll just rest here at this long-outdated version.
Generally I don't think rolling release is the issue itself (I have been using it for years), but it seems like every packaging/updating scheme out there sucks for one reason or another. Every time something looks like it has the answer, there is something else that works contrary to what is expected/desired.
Tumble me weeds hasn't borked my main rigs or 'family & friends' puters in like 5 years. So overall I had less work compared to updating all them Debians once or twice in the same period.
(Oh, no wait, I did have one smol issue with a KDE widget or something like that.)
Also every rolling-release is a semi-rolling-release if you update once weekly or even monthly.
I'm on Tumbleweed for years with no major issues. I messed it up couple times myself (switching to Wayland and also pipewire among others) but there's Snapper to save my ass. To see the update bork the system? Happened once I believe. Also solved by snapper and waiting a week.
Sure, updates are available almost daily, but they're not forced. I update when I have time/will. Sometimes twice a week sometimes after months. Still solid.
I've never had any problems with updates corrupting my system. I use Mint, by the way.
Me to but i need to install somethings manualy because apt was holding old versions.
On one of our machines, a couple of times updates have "de-Mintified" Xfce, making it like stock Xfce & removing things like Whisker Menu.
Managed to fix it once, but still de-Mintified (but only on the main user account, not the admin account π€¨) this time. Might have to give up on Mint Xfce.
I've been using Debian SID for couple years now. Updates come every couple hours. Other than some held-back packaged from time to time I had 0 issues.
BTW, everyone knows that SID (Still In Development) is named after Sid Philips from Toy Story, right?
I miss pmjv
Did something happen?
SDF's lemmy server ran out of hard drive space and we are waiting on the new ones.
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