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Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Linux Questions@lemmy.zipEnglish · 15 days ago

People on rolling releases, how often do you update your packages?

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People on rolling releases, how often do you update your packages?

Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Linux Questions@lemmy.zipEnglish · 15 days ago
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  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
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    Every day. There’s no point being an a bleeding edge distro if you’re not riding the edge 🤣

    • treadful@lemmy.zip
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      The horror of rebooting every day.

      • Ghoelian@piefed.social
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        I shut everything down at the end of the day. Takes <30 seconds to boot up so it’s not really an issue

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          The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work

          • Ghoelian@piefed.social
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            Ahh, fair. I’ve been running a fedora atomic distro for a while so that’s not really somebing I worry about anymore.

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        14 days ago

        It takes about ten seconds. Thirty or so if you include all my running programs restarting

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        I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it’s fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.

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          It’s not about worrying something will go wrong at boot, it’s just about the annoyance of losing my session.

  • nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    Every week or two, or month, or two. 🙃

  • artiman@piefed.social
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    every 7 days

    • treadful@lemmy.zip
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      Or if I hear about a security update.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipOP
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      That’s what I’m doing as well, seems like a good compromise.

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    Infrequently (when I remember)

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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    Whenever I’m bored and can’t think of anything else to do

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    When I remember, or when something breaks

  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world
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    When I think of it. Every few days on average, sometimes weeks though.

    I’ve blindly updated a year+ old Arch install without introducing problems. Not saying they don’t ever happen, but it isn’t that common.

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    Daily, or on machines I don’t use daily, every time I boot into it

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    Generally as I get a notification that packages are available. The exception is probably if there’s a new kernel and I don’t feel like rebooting.

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    I usually run updates every night before I shut down my computer. Probably in part a leftover from the time I used Gentoo and I’d leave my computer on over night compiling updates. I’m not saying this is the optimal way, it just feels right for me.

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    Daily usually.

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    Counter-question: how do linux releases roll?

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    Every day (NixOS unstable)

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    I update Portage almost daily but do the actual package updating kind of every week - it depends on how many packages are (or how big they are) to be updated

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    Every day by cronjob.

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