Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups

That clock placement is giving me anxiety

yolo, friend. yolo.

what packaging system?

Average rolling release distro user experience

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!

Just do a fresh install man. I'm getting anxiety just by looking at it.

If forgetting/not wanting to update puts you in this hole, like… ever, you should really give an atomic distro some serious consideration.

I've updated an Arch install after not being used for 2 years. I don't think there were any issues.

I've experienced far more issues upgrading to a new major release of an apt based distro though...

It's my experience that Ubuntu and Fedora break if you don't upgrade often (and then suddenly do after a year), while arch doesn't... Which is interesting, since it's supposed to be the other way around...

I think it's because Fedora and Ubuntu add a lot of new things, while arch just updates it's packages.

It's been an hour, I think OP didn't make it!!!!

Op, it's been an entire day... How'd did it go?

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?

And they were never heard from AGAIN! Oooooooo It is horror month, and that's pretty scary! :-D

Snapper FTW

And that is why I use Opensuse tumbleweed, no worries ever (zypper takes a snapshot before and after each upgrade, single command to roll back)

Thoughts and prayers fren

Praying for your computer, friend

@Magnolia_@lemmy.ca it’s been 8 hours, did you make it?

Becareful with glibc

At that point I'd just backup my data and do a fresh install - would probably take less time too

I just tried updating my computer to Mint 22 and because I did a lot of tweaking to get VR running well it ended up uninstalling x11. I restored to backup and am now considering just doing a fresh install when 21 loses support instead lol.