A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s App Store and Play Store were a thing.

We can no longer do that thanks to Flatpaks and Snaps as well as AppImages.

Recently i upgraded my Fedora system. I few days later i found out i was runnig some older apps since they were Flatpaks (i had completely forgotten how I installed bitwarden for instance.)

Do you miss the old system too?

Is it possible to bring back that experience? A unified, reliable CLI solution to make sure EVERYTHING is up to date?

  • Limitless_screaming
    36•1 year ago

    alias update='sudo pacman -Syu && flatpak update' or just use one of the trillion GUI app stores like pamac, discover, or gnome’s thing whatever they call it.

    • ISometimesAdmin
      1•1 year ago

      Right? Like, c’mon OP, this is a really silly mountain to make out of the tiniest molehill.

      • Limitless_screaming
        1•1 year ago

        I really hate the “we had it better before ${X} technology replaced ${Y}”; it almost never works in the Linux landscape.

        It’s most likely a one liner to fix the issue you’re having, and if it isn’t, then you can replace the problematic part of your system with whatever suites you.

        You don’t like Flatpaks? remove all of them and use packages from your distro’s repos. Don’t like GNU-utils? use Busybox. Don’t like systemd? use Artix, Gentoo, or rip systemd out of your OS like a real man.