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Penguin soldier on the frontier: "Fun? No, I don't think rolling distros are fun! I lost two friends out here!"

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[–] 63 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It's dangerous to go rolling. Take this

Nix os snapshots

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    nixos generations have saved my ass way more than I'm willing to admit.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So far they only messed me up. I was ricing my grub, messed up, and put systemd boot alongside grub boot. It panicked and put new generations on systemd boot, and grub as bootloader. This lead me into booting back into an older generation instead of the latest one

    I do like having them tho. Just never encountered a problem warranting a revert (and I hope I won't)

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago

    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 Continue onwards without me, I'll just rest here at this long-outdated version.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.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    I wield Arch btw

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  • [+] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I've never had any problems with updates corrupting my system. I use Mint, by the way.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    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 🀨) this time. Might have to give up on Mint Xfce.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Rolling release?

    You mean sysupdate cd /sys/src && mk install

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (2 children)

    SDF's lemmy server ran out of hard drive space and we are waiting on the new ones.

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