This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system.

I was supposed to be in bed now, but instead I am stuck troubleshooting xorg refusing to start after an apt-get dist-upgrade.

And as far as friendly reminders go, I should’ve given myself an unfriendly reminder beforehand, as it’s not the first time…

UPDATE: Fuck nvidia 545. All my homies hate nvidia 545. 535 4 lyf!

  • lemmyvore
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    111 months ago

    Packages can break, not the distro. Packages can break at any time because there’s thousands of them and nobody can check all of them thoroughly. A rolling distro gets you both the bugs and the fixes faster.

    Non-apt and non-rolling will limit your options considerably.

    • @TrickDacy
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      111 months ago

      I might be confused. I thought that the distro itself was made up of packages and that’s what all updates did: update various packages bundled with the distro (plus any you installed yourself)