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
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The recent attacks have been against the AUR.
Which pacman doesn't reference.
In terms of sneaking in malicious code, that's possible in the official repos of all operating systems, including the windows store.
The actual meme speaks more to the fact that windows update is enforced unless you jump through enormous flaming hoops, and it will measurably make your already running system worse as it forces the installation of things the user wouldn't want (ie copilot) or removes functionality they do (classic control panel).
But you know... I use Arch btw.
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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?)
Add a pacman hook to create a btrfs snapshot before ever update, if anything stupid breaks, rollback to the snapshot and wait a week for it to get fixed before trying again.
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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.
Ask not how worthy an idol Linux is, but what you can do to give back to free software.
xbps-install -u
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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)...
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At least until the AI slop updates don't reach the kernel (at least they're banned from some parts of it).
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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.
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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.
I have a windows 10 install next to my Linux and I have to agree updates are awful. It might be windows 10 but 3 restarts for an update and the system runs like crap until the update installs. I removed a windows 11 install a while ago because I only used it to play 2 games and it might sit dormant for a few days or longer and when I got back into windows it was unusable until the updates finished. I am running 64GB of ddr4 and a 16 core amd ryzen 9 with a 16GB 9070xt. Hardware is not the issue in my opinion.
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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"
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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 probably heavily dependent on distro, using Bazzite right now and the only bug I've run into recently is ProtonPlus not downloading Steam Tinker Launcher because "yad >= 7.2" for some fucken reason. Let me download it fucker I want to use Vortex to download my fuckoff NV modpack.
I certainly have a guess
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It's funny that dnf update is still a thing. Nowadys it's just an alias for dnf upgrade. π
I was wondering why is there no upgrade. Turned out thereβs no update!
When I returned to fedora I used yum update until I learned that that was just dnf upgrade with extra steps (yum is just a symlink to dnf5). But it works. For old farts like me who can't stop doing things the was they've learned. π
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Ahhh!! You jinxed it!!
yay
I'm so glad with making a decision to escape the Winslop subscriptions at every mouse click.
Well, unless you have Nvidia drivers. Who knows what breaks this time.
I probably have as many technical issues updating Linux as I do Windows.
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emerge -auDN @world
Also:
gr ~/.src # (script I wrote myself to update code repos)
cd ~/.src/repo
make -j8
doas make install