Sorry! I should have put it in the description, it’s a Linux joke about updating Arch Linux, specifically, and that a lot of (definitely not all) trans women use it.
But funnily enough, as the comments show, everyone uses even more obscure distributions.
You’re fine, thanks for explaining! Sometimes I feel like I’m the only transfemme who doesn’t know computers… changing OS on my desktop or phone is scary even though it looks more and more like the smart move these days 😅
Not even distributions necessarily, just different package-managers that also have support for the AUR. (paru is in fact developed by one of the maintainers of pacman itself, which is one of the reasons for why I’m going with it)
But yeah, Arch requires regular system-updates, that you should kinda do daily, except at some point you get lazy and stop doing them…
when you update, you also get some news, and sometimes it says critical stuff in there, like new driver version doesn’t support certain devices any more, or configuration needs to be redone or something like this
Yes but because arch ships updates very close to when app devs release updates there are sometimes (very rarely in my experience) breaking changes that the user needs to fix manually (arch devs always tell users how to but it means automating updates can cause problems)
Sorry! I should have put it in the description, it’s a Linux joke about updating Arch Linux, specifically, and that a lot of (definitely not all) trans women use it.
But funnily enough, as the comments show, everyone uses even more obscure distributions.
You’re fine, thanks for explaining! Sometimes I feel like I’m the only transfemme who doesn’t know computers… changing OS on my desktop or phone is scary even though it looks more and more like the smart move these days 😅
I kinda want to go back to the days when I didn’t know it 😄 You’re also definitely not the only one!
Not even distributions necessarily, just different package-managers that also have support for the AUR. (paru is in fact developed by one of the maintainers of pacman itself, which is one of the reasons for why I’m going with it)
But yeah, Arch requires regular system-updates, that you should kinda do daily, except at some point you get lazy and stop doing them…
Is there no way to automatise those system updates…?
when you update, you also get some news, and sometimes it says critical stuff in there, like new driver version doesn’t support certain devices any more, or configuration needs to be redone or something like this
Yes but because arch ships updates very close to when app devs release updates there are sometimes (very rarely in my experience) breaking changes that the user needs to fix manually (arch devs always tell users how to but it means automating updates can cause problems)
Sure, just put it in a cron job. There are safer ways too listed on the arch wiki iirc.