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I will be returning from a month-long vacation next week. Let’s see if my arch machine will break completely! (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by ouigol to c/[email protected]

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Last time I didn’t upgrade for a long while some drivers broke, maybe I’ll just switch to NixOS this time since it seems interesting. Does anyone here use NixOS? What do you think about it?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most likely, nothing will happen. Arch breaking if you don't updating 5x a day is more of a meme than a reality.

I've updated a client's Arch server that hadn't been touched for years, and it went just fine.

You're the user, you're in control, you're empowered to make sure it won't break after the update, you're empowered to fix it if it does.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I update my arch computer maybe once a month for years and it works fine.