Just think of all the great things you’re going to learn about emergency boot recovery!
Side note: “I’mma” is a contraction of the whole phrase “I’m going to” or “I’m about to” so it’s followed immediately by the verb indicating what you’ll be doing:
“I’mma rawdog this sucker without backups.”
Yes, I added sucker, because it’s going to suck up all your time and data, sucka!
I’ve always thought of it as I am gonna
That’s the lightly slangy version I would normally use, but as long as I was being pedantic I thought I’d better avoid any contractions in that part.
Op should have used “I’m finna rawdog this jawn no backup style”
For no reason other than mixed US slang from different regions sounds funnier to my ear
“no backup style” hits just right.
I’ve got a similar problem - but I can’t update because my /var and /root partitions are full. I’ll do a fresh install and use btrfs for the snapshots, I think I fucked my current system somehow and going back would’ve fixed it.
That’s why I have an alias that does an unattended update and then powers off. I run this every night.
kde?
Looks like glibc got another update
Thoughts and prayers fren
And they were never heard from AGAIN! Oooooooo It is horror month, and that’s pretty scary! :-D
Don’t try to install Arch after midnight.
How long should you wait before installing? It was midnight over 9 hours ago so am I good to go?
Do it!
Something i can say, did you have ready an snapshot of the system??, cuz too may things can go wrong with that numbre of updates.
If something like that happens, maybe the best option would be to just install a new fresh os lol
Troubleshooting everything that goes wrong will take my lifetime
Becareful with glibc
What os and de are you on? It looks pretty clean.
That’s bog standard KDE, I have no idea about the distro tho
The de is kde plasma
Looks like Manjaro to me
KDE Plasma is one of the default options which you can install with Manjaro. Manjaro is the Linux distro, but KDE Plasma is the DE (desktop environment/GUI).
That clock placement is giving me anxiety
That’s probably one of the updates
The clock updates every minute.
What a resource hog
I haven’t updated it in years for fear of this Y2K issue. What’s ahead for me guys?
You’re not missing much. There are no new features, and a bug related to the year 2038 was introduced.
what’s there to not like about 7:40PM?
Yeah, that’s some ugly desktop environment.
Maybe I’m just screaming into the void here, but does it seem like, as a person who is still relatively out of touch with linux, I don’t necessarily have to update my Arch distribution whenever there are new updates available? I could theoretically just go on downloading new programs, uninstalling old ones, using everything as it sits until theoretically something breaks?
You should always run a full upgrade when installing a new package to make sure your versions are all in sync. Like if your new package is looking for version 1.1 and you have 1.0 installed, the new package won’t work. In general, everything should be installed with ‘pacman -Syu’ not just ‘pacman -S’
If you don’t install any new packages, then no you don’t need to upgrade anything. You’re just missing out on security patches and upgraded features. It’s worth running occasional upgrades.
Iirc, the Arch wiki says you should synchronize all packages while adding new ones, and it’s technically unsupported. It might work in some cases, but personally I didn’t have to do much to not be able to launch something because symbols missing in libraries or no such file altogether. To avoid problems it’s better to sync packages fully at least once in a while.
You’ll run into security and stability problems if you put it off for too long.
I don’t necessarily have to update my Arch distribution whenever there are new updates available
Clearly, op agrees
