Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups

That clock placement is giving me anxiety

Op, it's been an entire day... How'd did it go?

Side note: "I'mma" is a contraction of the whole phrase "I'm going to" or "I'm about to" so it's followed immediately by the verb indicating what you'll be doing:

"I'mma rawdog this sucker without backups."

Yes, I added sucker, because it's going to suck up all your time and data, sucka!

Average rolling release distro user experience

yolo, friend. yolo.

what packaging system?

Just think of all the great things you're going to learn about emergency boot recovery!

Just do a fresh install man. I'm getting anxiety just by looking at it.

If forgetting/not wanting to update puts you in this hole, like… ever, you should really give an atomic distro some serious consideration.

Maybe I'm just screaming into the void here, but does it seem like, as a person who is still relatively out of touch with linux, I don't necessarily have to update my Arch distribution whenever there are new updates available? I could theoretically just go on downloading new programs, uninstalling old ones, using everything as it sits until theoretically something breaks?

Praying for your computer, friend

I've updated an Arch install after not being used for 2 years. I don't think there were any issues.

I've experienced far more issues upgrading to a new major release of an apt based distro though...

It's my experience that Ubuntu and Fedora break if you don't upgrade often (and then suddenly do after a year), while arch doesn't... Which is interesting, since it's supposed to be the other way around...

I think it's because Fedora and Ubuntu add a lot of new things, while arch just updates it's packages.

And they were never heard from AGAIN! Oooooooo It is horror month, and that's pretty scary! :-D

It's been an hour, I think OP didn't make it!!!!

And that is why I use Opensuse tumbleweed, no worries ever (zypper takes a snapshot before and after each upgrade, single command to roll back)

Thoughts and prayers fren

@Magnolia_@lemmy.ca it’s been 8 hours, did you make it?

Snapper FTW

Becareful with glibc

https://lemmy.world/post/20137588

At that point I'd just backup my data and do a fresh install - would probably take less time too

What os and de are you on? It looks pretty clean.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/raw dog

I just tried updating my computer to Mint 22 and because I did a lot of tweaking to get VR running well it ended up uninstalling x11. I restored to backup and am now considering just doing a fresh install when 21 loses support instead lol.

That's why I have an alias that does an unattended update and then powers off. I run this every night.

I've got a similar problem - but I can't update because my /var and /root partitions are full. I'll do a fresh install and use btrfs for the snapshots, I think I fucked my current system somehow and going back would've fixed it.

Something i can say, did you have ready an snapshot of the system??, cuz too may things can go wrong with that numbre of updates.

Looks like glibc got another update

Do it!