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Who sits and watches the update process?
Me, occasionally. I like seeing the little Pac-Man eat away at progress of a download on EndeavourOS.
Also, this video covers it slightly.
Oh god, the "your computer slows down over time" BS from people who have no idea what they are talking about so "fuck it - just nuke and reinstall".
Remove repos you aren't using. Uninstall / purge things you don't want anymore. If you don't know how to fix it then you'll just re-do everything that made it "slow" again.
Maybe not watching it per se, but it's nice to catch a problem before I reboot (ie a grub upgrade failure for example)
People that live in a place where 4 mbps speeds are a norm.
Why? That's an even worse place to sit and watch your updates.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
then do something else while it runs and check in later.Gentoo user here. I look at system load while compiling. (: But most of the time I can use my PC while portage is doing it's job.
I mean, for Gentoo users an update is a bit like "track day". So I can understand that. 😀
Who watches the watcher?