The best one is where the install size is negative that peak joy.

Don't hate, but I actually like the GUI update manager in Mint. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ive said that Linux turned tech and computing back to fun for me, after hating interacting with computers and devices more and more. Linux is just fun to learn and rewarding.

Sometimes I have to remind myself how horrible locked down maliciously coded OS's are and how good I have it with Linux.

I do believe it's not just one of the things to keep getting better, it's a blueprint for the things we want to build in the future. From software to society. More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.

My current enemy is the stranglehold of corporate OSs in the mobile space. That really really needs to go for good.

apt upgrade -U

Does both update and upgrade.

Returning to Linux reminded me that devs/tech people have a good sense of humour. Like the old days.

Gave me a chuckle that pacman launches pacmen(?) to nomnom for progress. Love it.

Windows got so bad that Linux attracted genuine user base. 10/10 marketing from Microslop

Poor zypper gets forgotten again!

zypper dup

Free as in freedom. One of the last living things from the hippie movement, by the people, for the people. No governments required.

You sure the guys running pacman are sitting on the right hand side of the bus? Seems a bit more like they should be in the back doing a skill check for luck and rolling a d20

nixos-rebuild switch

I unironically pacman -Syu'd today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos

Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it's previous' version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)

In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.

Try telling that to someone who had a spinning cube desktop on their 386 or 486.

xbps-install -u

At least until the AI slop updates don't reach the kernel (at least they're banned from some parts of it).

I think this is true of open source and open science more generally.

In the long run there's no way that the actual desires of humanity can be out-developed by an extremely privileged group of front-runners, rent-seekers, enshittifiers, etc. (eg. proprietary software)...

I know this is a Linux community and therefore we love to hate on Windows...

but for anyone that hasn't used Windows in a while, they actually finally implemented relatively decent package manager in the form of "winget". When you add the wonderful UniGetUI on top of it you get a pretty good experience.

It had issues early on with consistency but the last ~year or two has seen it get a ton of improvement. It's much more reliable than it used to be.

Obviously "it's about goddamn time" and it doesn't hold a candle to mature package manager like what's available on Linux.

But if you've not experienced it before, and are forced to use Windows sometimes, it's worth checking out.

Can't say I've been happy with the direction that Ubuntu is going, but at least I can still do regular security updates on my old af Ubuntu release without fearing that it will randomly decide to upgrade to a new major release. Plus, there are still plenty of distros that are just fine, and switching is only as annoying as a reinstall.

I troubleshoot linux for a living but it doesn't hurt to know other OSs ...

Windows has had for a while third party repositories like winget and chocolately that work just like our beloved repos.

I think the two I mentioned recently joined and renamed as "uniget"

Eh, you'd hope. I can't definitively say why this happens for now, but I'm seeing a surprising amount of "little bugs and quirks" seeping through, more than it used to. And that makes me worried.

It's funny that dnf update is still a thing. Nowadys it's just an alias for dnf upgrade. 🙂

Ahhh!! You jinxed it!!