Good catch. Haven’t been using apt in some time.

sudo pacman -Syu

It runs so much faster if you do upgrade first \s

C’mon, it’s Debian! Obsolete anyway. Update today, upgrade in a week, not like things gonna change. Perhaps the man forgot the upgrade a week ago, upgraded, and then decided to double-check there’s nothing new anyway. Right?

No, no. You gotta update last to let them marinate for a while before you upgrade. If you upgrade too fast it just doesn't taste the same.

Isn't this how Non-Torvalds Linus bricked his install

iirc, apt-get is the version to use in scripts. They keep the input & output consistent so that it won't break things.

Regular old apt is for humans to use at the command prompt, and that's what I use all the time.

Yeah why do I still see this everywhere

haven't used linux in decades but used to use aptitude over apt-get

I do update my Arch each time it boots. Like a tiny tradition to me.

Just yay would suffice

Not exactly correct. They are releasing their hot patch service more broadly. These are updates that would normally require a restart no longer need to be restarted.

Just like Linux though, if you didn’t want to restart after updating you never really were forced to.

thats only if it actually downloads and installs. our enterprise windows installs like to take 5-10 attempts to actually get the software onto the computer. "Install failed. retry?"

Not that it matters much but isn't there cheap adapters to/from VGA?

Vga-hdmi adapters are trivial

they need to make apt get upgrate that does both in the right order...

No, you misspelled zypper dup. But with enough time, you'll get there.

sorry, usage of this tool has been discontinued, please use [WORSE TOOL WITH DIFFERENT NAME]

(joking but not really, gemini-cli is going to the google graveyard, replaced by antigravity-cli that's basically the same, but in google's tradition it launches with less features and also it's not FOSS)

KDE Plasma does what I tell it to

Wait, plasma does your system updates? I don't think it's an appropriate chain of commands

I reinstalled Windows 11 a while ago because of a software I struggled to get working on Linux (the adobe installer patches for WINE have since resolved that) and I had no idea how annoying the installation process is. You had to babysit it, and tell it your life's story. Not to mention the amount of times it asked me to sign up for MS 365 and OneDrive. In the end, it enabled OneDrive anyway, despite me telling it to sod off at least half a dozen times.

And that's just the install process. Using it is another beast entirely. Why do I need to accept a UAC prompt just to open a browser? Why does the browser need to update itself every time I boot the OS?

Why do I have to hunt all over the internet for basic stuff that should come with the OS itself? Even when I used an NVidia card I didn't have to faff around with some stupid third party software to handle drivers, it was just there. Sure it broke all the time because NVidia is a garbage company, but it was right there!

First thing I do on a new system using apt is aliasing this to "UpdateSystem" in .bashrc

It's a good thing system packages (which should follow a conservative update approach if possible to guarantee system stability, unless hardware demands newer packages) and user applications (which you'd usually want to be most up-to-date) are increasingly isolated from each other and mostly able to follow their own schedules. Also improves security and such.

You forgot -y

... && apt-get moo

I thought it was dist-upgrade

Yeah, rebooting just makes sure that everything is using the new updated packages, so if you update then reboot you'll be golden

No. Fedora sometimes updates configs or packages (e.g. kernel) that require a reboot to take advantage of. If you're a linux veteran you can decide by yourself if or if not you need to reboot. But fedora wants to have a stable and smooth experience for all its users.

I'm probably a big newb, but on my headless Debian machines, major updates screw me up sometimes too.

• "Ah! All my updates can't be found on the server? Oh we're done with "Bo-Peep" and moving to "PotatoHead" now? Maybe I should be on the newsletter or something..."
• Change some sources in that one text file I gotta look up every time...
• apt update && apt dist-upgrade "Oh, that's a lot of errors..."

I'm sure it's not that bad and I'm being dramatic but I do kinda appreciate my rolling OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this reason lol. I feel like newbies would struggle with that major release upgrade process...

This (actually Ubuntu when it was still mostly Debian) is why I am using Tumbleweed now.

Small upgrades often seems to work more reliably for me.

winget upgrade --all

I used chocolatey for a while on windows. I did like it, but due to some of the fussiness with it I found it was just better to put up with crappy .exe files

paru

Plus he couldbhave just used 'apt' one command.