I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?
The “Arch breaks on updates” meme is about 20 years out of date.
Almost as old as the last Debian update.
I run Slackware. Debian is much too unstable for my taste.
I mean, I had a mainline kernel update bork my system last month
jokes on you one of my not so much into linux friends had it and his setup kept breaking, now he’s about to install fedora
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I think it’s just sarcasm for the memes from the OP, asking why nothing breaks and what is he doing wrong. The expected behavior is to break.
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I use yay almost exclusively and have a few AUR stuff. And I used a custom Kernel too (Zen). Nothing broke unfortunately. I’m on EndevourOS, so very close to bare metal Archlinux. But before that I was on Manjaro and had AUR stuff too and was using Pamac (not to be confused with pacman) instead yay. And it broke something all the time.
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Then I’m doing something wrong.
not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?
Love it. xD
every time Ive has a problem it was keyring or bootloader
Same. Except that one time I forgot to charge my laptop and my battery decided it will go to 0% during a kernel update. Charge, Reboot into live iso, arch-chroot, do update. Reboot into normal system, all good. A 5 minute job, but it’s the most serious issue I’ve had to deal with, alongside the keyring issues once which were solved by an Erik Dubois video, a 15-minute fix incuding the video runtime.
Somewhat recently I caused a failed kernel update by accident:
Ran system update in tmux session (local session on desktop). But problem was that tmux itself got also updated, which crashed the tmux session and as a result crashed the kernel update. Only realized it upon the following reboot (which no longer worked).
Your described solution re “live ISO, chroot, run system update once more, reboot” was also what got me out of that situation. So certainly something worth learning for “general troubleshooting” purposes re system updates.
Try run reflector
run0 reflector -l 10 -f 5 >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlistrun0 😤
I was waiting for this moment 😹😹😹
But I actually am using run0
I have no actual problem with it, the only reason I don’t is that it’s harder to type
That’s true… But once you get used to it, you don’t even notice that you write run0
Thanks—I am running the zen kernel because I didn’t really understand the question during archinstall, and have added an AUR helper but still no lack of joy.
I’ll definitely give this a go—probably on Friday afternoon.
I misunderstood your post. This command I told you is to make things better, not worse haha
If you really wanna make your Arch unstable, you may wanna install every single package with
pacman -SyAlso maybe you wanna install everything from AUR
lol! There’s such a mix of people being genuinely helpful and people telling me the joke is past its sell-by date. But I hadn’t come across reflector before and will definitely give it a go—thanks :)
Please don’t run arbitrary commands just because someone on the Internet told you to use them.
The arch wiki will tell you all you need to know and more.
What on earth went wrong?
Arch is just as safe as any other distro, sometimes more so. Being a rolling jobbie, smaller bits tend to break at a time. If you want to live life on the edge then Gentoo is your man but even Gentoo is becoming pretty safe. You might lose your windowing system for a while but you still have links2 to get to a search engine.
Read the post, literally nothing ☺️
