• BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 months ago

    Ohh, but the pain of discovering that it broke something important, but not often used, 3 months later…

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    I updated the the other day and now my system boots to a grub prompt; I have to type exit and then it starts normally.

    I’d figure out how to fix it, but I reboot so infrequently that I keep forgetting about it.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      It definitely happens if you upgrade to the next version of your distro while it’s still in beta.

      You hit a bunch of bugs, and they actually do get fixed around final release time.

      Once you’re on a stable branch, updates rarely include major changes.

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    481·
    4 months ago

    Is this some sort of Arch joke I’m too stable and usable to understand?

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    4·
    4 months ago

    I had this when going from Ubuntu 20 to 22 last week. Luckily the universe made sense again when going from 22 to 24, breaking halfway the installation and putting my laptop in a fucked up state between 22 and 24. Caused me a whole afternoon of headaches

    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’m on 40 now considering jumping to 41. Did you have any issues with the update at all? My experience with 39-40 was disastrous. Fortunately the Discord community is amazing.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    8·
    4 months ago

    On my new Lenovo with a brand install of Fedora, DNF was reporting 10KiB/s disk writes when installing packages. That was a long long upgrade but fortunately all that got fixed by the upgrade.

  • dutchkimble@lemy.lol
    10·
    4 months ago

    I’m in the 4th box where there’s nothing to do so you try something new and botch up systemd or netplan or something enough to warrant a fresh install and start again

  • Gunpachi@lemmings.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    In my experience the only times I’ve had a stable experience was

    • when I actually only installed packages I needed i.e using a window manager instead of a DE (and no bloat packages which I’ll eventually lose track of)

    • using an atomic distro, my favourite so far has to be bluefin which is part of the Ublue project based on Fedora Silverblue. NixOS is also great but it gives me the urge to pointlessly tinker instead of getting actual stuff done.

    In the past I’ve seen flatpaks and containers as bloated and messy solutions which tainted my computer but now that I’ve tried it, It’s actually very convenient.

    I’ve always installed a crap ton of packages for gaming which turns into this inevitable mess, but with containers I just use bazzzite-arch and be done with it. It wraps all my gaming packages in one neat container.

  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    4 months ago

    Which distro? I’ve upgraded Mint on the weekend. The installer failed with an error where i couldn’t get good infos about online.

    Then i just rebooted the system out of frustration. Surprisingly it seems to work fine.

    Is there a distro where upgrades just work? Maybe Fedora? Or i just install arch on the system, it works great on my server for the last 10 years without reinstall.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Atomic Fedora variants. Updates literally mean replacing the system image, so there’s nothing to really go wrong.

    • vga@sopuli.xyz
      10·
      4 months ago

      Fedora and Arch are pretty good. The magic sauce (my guess) is that they both pretty much release just upstream software without trying to “fix” them unless things are totally broken.

        • iguanajuice@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          Ysk, the unicode number for ™ is 0x2122. You can type any unicode hexcode on linux by pressing Ctrl+shift+u followed by typing the code then pressing enter.

          While I’m here, a couple other easy and handy unicodes to remember: en dash: – 0x2013 em dash: — 0x2014

          Most people use a normal dash instead of these, but en and em dashes are technically more correct in some cases

    • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      4 months ago

      Debian in particular is rock solid, even Debian Unstable has been very reliable for me if you want a rolling release with newer packages.

      But I’ve also had very few problems with Ubuntu. My mother has used it for ten years at this point and will happily apply any dist upgrade she’s presented with, and rarely does she need support.

      A pro tip is to check out the alternative desktop environments. A lot of people rightly hate Ubuntu’s awful default DE, but it’s not a core part of the distro, there are other complete desktop “flavours” available in the repositories and installers that will give you them from the start at https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours

      (Switching an installed system from one DE to another is in principle as easy as uninstalling one desktop meta-package and installing another, but you got to make sure you get the right packages, or you might run into annoying conflicts, so I would not recommend it for a newbie)

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      3·
      4 months ago

      Fedora also broke an update on my watch, but it backed up automatically so I reverted.

      Atomic distros should be good in that respect, including atomic Fedora distributions (Silverblue/Kinoite/…)

      • llii@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        4 months ago

        Atomic distros should be good in that respect, including atomic Fedora distributions (Silverblue/Kinoite/…)

        I’ve now tried Fedora Silverblue in a virtualbox VM. After the first update, GDM wouldn’t start. I tried to restore to the older installed version and then updating this version, but now both versions are borked. Oh well …

        • Allero@lemmy.today
          2·
          4 months ago

          Tbh I once faced similar issue when test-driving Aurora, a heavily modified Kinoite. It just blackscreened on boot.

          But I didn’t run it on bare metal, so idk if it’s indicative.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    For what it’s worth last time I broke an update fixing it ended up fixing a bunch of other issues I was having.