wltr

Fair point! I just did many installs recently (a bit of a long story), and at some point just stopped even following the wiki. But if I can afford it, I simply clone my entire system, and tweak from there. Takes very little time, and I have a complete clone of my perfectly working system.

Also, theoretically, I don’t even need a backup of the system, if I have at least two laptops with mostly same system. I have, one at home with broken keyboard and no battery, which servers as my home computer connected to a display. And another one is for on the go.

That’s exactly my experience. Now I understand most things I do, and I smile at this ‘installing Arch is difficult.’ No, it’s not. I can install it without any help from the wiki, by memory. As I understand what I’m doing and why. It’s not the difficult part. The difficult part is to make it yours.

Yes, it’s exactly like this.

Hey, but in general Fedora is very good and I can recommend it. This annoying update behaviour bears some meaning for some reason, so I can tolerate that.

It’s not that the system forces you to update. It’s you who is in control. Most times updates take minutes, with version upgrades taking like half an hour (twice a year).

I’d suggest you to investigate either Tailscale or similar solutions. I’m using Tailscale, and it’s really easy to set up. It can automatically connect to the VPN when you access their resource, and the internet works as well. So technically, they can be connected all the time. That’s much safer than the alternative of just opening a port, and dealing with things like CGNAT.

The alternatives to Tailscale I know about are Headscale (which you need self-hosting), Netbird, WireGuard. At least, but there are more.

And search for tunnels as well. You could utilise Cloudflare Tunnel, but I wouldn’t go that way.

I’d suggest testing waters with Tailscale as it’s the easiest, and tweak from there. They have a YouTube channel which helps at starting, I found it just recently. (I use them for a year or two now.)

Do you have it detailed somewhere? A blog or something. Would be interesting to see what it looks like.

Why Arch based distro then? Why not, say, Fedora? Debian. Popos.

But will it install those updates during the reboot? Or will it update just to apply the updates?

As the Gnome version (non-mutable, meaning not Silverblue) does not update a thing, even a browser. It updates during the reboot, by rebooting into some special state, akin to macOS (and perhaps Windows, haven’t been using one for decades) then it reboots again.

Since the latest update of Fedora (50? I lost the count at this point) it does the reboot even when you ask to shutdown the computer after updates.

I haven’t checked whether dnf update updates things right away (like browser), mostly because that’s a shared family computer, which I don’t touch most of the time. And I try to use it as I use macOS (as a normie would use), just to check out whether it’s a viable system yet. (It mostly is, but there are weird bugs that’s easy to resolve only when you’re knowledgeable of Linux.)

But it does not do the extra reboot and install updates thing. That’s why I’m puzzled why is it there in the first place?

For some reason Fedora does the same shit when you update from the Software app. Gnome version, perhaps KDE is different. And I really don’t understand why, as dnf update does the thing as it should be.

As if Microsoft was founded just yesterday and wasn’t scamming everyone at everything for like decades, right?