I find that I habitually open a terminal and run an update on every boot of my system (which gets rebooted once a day). I’m curious what other people do.

  • EddyBot@feddit.de
    3·
    6 months ago

    In case someone doesn’t know it yet:

    If you update your Arch Linux system with a kernel upgrade, the kernel modules will NOT be loaded again automatically by default and things like FUSE (used in AppImages for example or other FUSE based mounts) will not work without intervention

    simple rebooting is the foolproof way or setting up kernel module reload hooks: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kernel-modules-hook/

    • Tiuku@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      6 months ago

      And other smaller things tend to misbehave as well. For this reason I always upgrade right before shutting down my machnine anyway.

      An unintended side-effect of this is that I tend to postpone upgrades because I’m just about to leave somewhere and wouldn’t have to deal with any manual interventions.

  • Anarchistcowboy@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    Mostly everyday when I start my computer but I will avoid updating if I have a mission critical project to work on, because arch doesn’t break often but when it does it’s because you were trying to update right before working on a mission critical project.

  • ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip
    2·
    5 months ago

    Usually daily, when I boot up my PC. Unless there’s whole lot of updates, then I tend to wait till the end of the day and my work is done for the day. I mean I can always roll back, but I am weary of issues creeping up over several hours.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    1·
    6 months ago

    Whenever I feel like it tbh. Today I recently had to do so today because of the xz backdoor and before that, the new kde plasma 6 release. Before that, I basically didn’t update unless I needed to.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 months ago

    Usually twice a day on whatever PC I’m runnnig. That is unless I am really caught up in something I am working on then only when that task is complete which is rarely more than a week.

    My server about every other day, but if I am traveling I purposefully try not to since I have to be home to debug the worst kinds of situations.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
    1·
    6 months ago

    Multiple times a day, basically whenever I’m bored. Sometimes I get so depressed when there are no updates, that I install some random package or build something from source, so I can look at some text flying across my terminal, and look at all the cool stuff happening on my PC. I also have a journalct -f and btop running all the time as it’s interesting to see what’s happening behind the scenes.

  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Pretty much every day, it’s just part of my morning routine when I put the computer on. For reboots, basically whenever something important like the kernel, systemd or pipewire updates, just to avoid weird behavior.

  • breezelbub@l.shoddy.site
    1·
    6 months ago

    my desktop, about every other month? i have moved signal-desktop to a flatpak so i don’t have to do a full system update whenever it demands to be updated :D

  • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
    0·
    6 months ago

    Every time I install a package, or once a month.
    I use a script that shows new Arch news messages, updates the mirrorlist with the fastest mirrors in my country, updates repo packages, updates aur packages, then prints created .pacnew and .pacsave files as well as orphaned and dropped packages.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      I use a script that shows new Arch news messages, updates the mirrorlist with the fastest mirrors in my country, updates repo packages, updates aur packages, then prints created .pacnew and .pacsave files as well as orphaned and dropped packages.

      Would you mind sharing that script?

      • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
        1·
        6 months ago

        It’s not very sophisticated and has no error handling, but I only run it locally…

        #!/bin/bash
echo -e "\n...READING NEWS...\n"
yay -Pw
echo -e "\n...UPDATING MIRRORS...\n"
sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
sudo reflector --country Germany --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
echo -e "\n...UPDATING REPO PACKAGES...\n"
sudo pacman -Syu
echo -e "\n...UPDATING AUR...\n"
yay -Syu
echo -e "\n...ORPHANED PACKAGES...\n"
pacman -Qtd
echo -e "\n...PACKAGES NOT IN ARCH REPO...\n"
pacman -Qm
echo -e "\n...NEW CONFIG FILES...\n"
sudo find /etc -name *.pac*
echo "DONE 😊"

#Dependencies: yay, reflector, rsync, noto-fonts-emoji