Do you update your Arch often (daily) or not?
Which would be better?

I figure, if I update every day, I’ll likely not expect any issues, so I’d be less careful. And if something goes wrong (cause I didn’t read the news or the PKGBUILDs), I probably won’t have time to fix it right now.
Whereas if I update monthly, it’s something I’m taking my time to do, read the news beforehand, pay more attention and will have scheduled some time for it.

What’s your take?

  • Ocelot@lemmies.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    pacman -Syu; reboot on a root cron every day during work hours for the true windows-like experience.

  • lemmonade@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    I update every weekend because that’s when I have time to fix the issues that (rarely) come up because of updates. I also update and restart if there’s a problem I don’t understand as a way to try to solve that.

  • nieceandtows@programming.dev
    1·
    1 year ago

    Anything after a week or two is playing russian roulette in my opinion. Arch has so many fast moving packages, the longer you take the more likely it would break. That might not be the case anymore, but that is my opinion.

  • jaykstah@waveform.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I pretty much run a pacman -Syu every time i sit down at my computer for the first time in a day haha. On my laptop it might be a while before I turn it on and run an update, so in those cases I’ll check the website to see if any kinda manual intervention is required.