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People on rolling releases, how often do you update your packages? (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The horror of rebooting every day.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I shut everything down at the end of the day. Takes <30 seconds to boot up so it's not really an issue

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it'll work

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Ahh, fair. I've been running a fedora atomic distro for a while so that's not really somebing I worry about anymore.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The horror is not how long booting takes, but rather if it’ll work

I've been patching and bouncing hundreds of machines automatically. The first decade, I was concerned and then merely observant. It's been so reliable that I just stopped being concerned for the second decade. The last 5 years have been very occasionally (1%) unreliable, thanks to Lennart's cancer, but not enough that I need to give it more than a glance. EL10 is a bit of a shitshow, so maybe the slow trend since el7 is continuing.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

It takes about ten seconds. Thirty or so if you include all my running programs restarting

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every day.

The horror of rebooting every day.

Linux doesn't need reboots for regular stuff. Proper packages can update everything from sendmail to syslog and not need a bounce.

The only time you need a bounce is

the kernel, but with tech since 2001 that's not even required immediately
if you glance funny at dbus or systemd

That's almost it.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kernel updates constantly on my distro. And with all the other various library and service updates it's usually simpler to just reboot than restart everything individually anyway. So 9 times out of 10 I'm rebooting on an update.

[–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I update every day. Things rarely go wrong. When they do, it's fixing time, which I kinda enjoy. Only when I know that I really need the computer to work at next boot, will I delay updating.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It's not about worrying something will go wrong at boot, it's just about the annoyance of losing my session.