I have a laptop running Linux Mint I only use for hosting bar trivia. I only need it to run like 4 applications but I need them to run flawlessly. The last time I updated it jacked up my soundboard, which I didn’t notice until I was in front of a crowd and it played the wrong sound effects. Never again.
Rolling release master race checking for updates several times per day.
Rolling release, update every now and then, 4000+ packages is common. Nothing ever breaks.
Thanks zipper!
I’m guessing you mean zypper?
I did.
However my zipper never breaks either. So both work, although in that case it’s loosely related.
Cannot update 600 packages because library-you’ve-never-heard-of conflicts with what-the-fuck-even-is-a-polypterodaclib?
KDE’s qt6 transition sure was something
polypterodaclib
Fucking hell, I nearly spat out my coffee at that one word. Bravo.
Spell it with me D-E-B-I-A-N
Can’t wait to get KDE 6 in 2027!
Update your system frequently,
that minimizes the chance of things breaking in my experience.I only ever update between projects - no way am I going to break something in the middle of everything.
This time, jump to new gnome means broken extensions as usual, and a hilarious one: qbittorrent doesn’t show it’s window in Wayland (gnome-with-X works). The soft is running, it there in the list of apps, there’s even a big X “Close Window” button on Zoom Out but no actual window.
Eh. Lol?
ITT: People who have never heard of Crontab
What are you trying to say with this? You think running automatic, unattended updates with a cronjob is a good idea?
it didn’t break anything “so far”
Don’t worry. When you reboot, your kernel will have magically disappeared!
Only for version updates. Beyond that, dnf-automatic handles those invisibly in the background. I only notice them when Firefox gets an update and demands a relaunch before it lets me keep browsing.
let me just quickly check discord … and manually download and run this update before we can automatically update again
Last time my Ubuntu Linux broke anything during an update is over 15 years ago. Last time a version upgrade failed was probably too over 5-10 years ago. I literally can’t remember those times
