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    [–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 6 points 6 days ago

    I'm on arch so its the highlight of every morning 🀣

    [–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 246 points 1 week ago (26 children)

    The poster would be more convincing if you hadn't inverted apt-get update and apt-get upgrade...

    [–] SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Maybe OP knew all along that they wanted to use the previous package list to upgrade and fetch the new one after! Maybe we’re all actually inverting it…

    (I’m just being silly, I recognize that an old package list would probably cause issues with installing or upgrading packages.)

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    [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I mean technically you did "update" the OS. It wasn't a particularly useful command by going second, but I bet it was fast.

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    [–] uzay@infosec.pub 27 points 1 week ago

    I mean, it's definitely faster this way around

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    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Who even uses apt-get these days?

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yeah apt-get is so old it officially misses packages that apt... gets.

    [–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Whoa, do you have something to read up on that? I'd be extremely surprised, since apt-get is supposed to be the script-safe variant, i.e. I'd imagine it's the more stable of the two.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    It's actually just personal experience, but I stopped using apt-get a few years back now because I noticed if I did apt after apt-get there would often be a bunch of packages it missed.

    Edit: looks like it might be because apt-get can't ~~satisfy dependencies~~ install new packages when upgrading while apt can since apt is a suite of different apt tools rolled into one.

    [–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yeah I'm reading a little bit on it, and it seems like apt-get can't install new packages during an upgrade. On initial reading I was thinking there were specific packages it couldn't download or something, but this makes sense too. Regardless, this is news to me; I always assumed that apt and apt-get were the same process, just with apt-get having stable text output for awk'ing and apt being human-readable. I've been using nala for a long time anyway, but this is very useful knowledge.

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    [–] flemtone@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Dont you mean: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

    [–] wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

    Yea apt-get is so 2010

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    [–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (7 children)
    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

    It is done that way for better reliability. It is optional and not even needed with Silverblue.

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    [–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Be me -

    Gets the Ok from IT to switch to a Linux Distro for my work desktop.

    Gets the Ok from my direct manager.

    Gets the Ok from our contracts manager who used to be in my direct managers position before.

    Direct manager reaches out to lead developer, who happens to be a windows fanboy, for the web app we use to ensure β€œcompatibility”, gets told to be careful of what I do and our cybersecurity insurance won’t cover it.

    Be me, looking around at all the minuscule pieces of hardware connected to the internet likely running some form of Linux or Unix.

    [–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    It's a fucking web app. Make sure it works for a browser. You suck as a web developer if your shit web app needs to work on a specific OS.

    And those are fighting words because I build web apps.

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    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    This is so cursed.

    1. Wrong order
    2. Dont use apt-get in the terminal
    3. Reboot
    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Ain't nobody got time for two commands. sudo apt upgrade --update

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago (15 children)

    Are you serious? That's a thing? I've been doing apt update and apt upgrade for years

    [–] Wilmo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

    It also has sudo apt autopurge which does autoremove --purge

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    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    Ain't nobody got time for apt-get. apt all the way.

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    [–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Click Update and Shut Down

    Windows: Updates and restarts

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    [–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    [–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    It's insanity. I had to upgrade my work laptop to windows 11 this week.

    IT didn't do their research and turns out our main software isn't compatible with windows 11 at all. So i had to downgrade back to windows 10. When i did, photos don't work and the microsoft store wont open.

    Windows is such a horrible system, i have no idea why they made it so poorly. I could have installed any distro of linux and had it working well in less than 20 minutes. Upgrading to windows 11 took almost 2 hours and it still didn't work.

    Now IT has to scramble to find a solution before the 14th and we lose all security updates, which they are very concerned about. What a nightmare to be in IT.

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    [–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I really like Linux but I just wish I understood how to use it better. I keep having to look up how to do things.

    [–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 week ago

    That’s how you learn to use it better!

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    [–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Even better:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
    [–] pinpin@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    sudo apt --update upgrade -y
    
    [–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    sudo apt --update upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
    
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    [–] arsCynic@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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    [–] gari_9812@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Nothing like the joy of my system upgrading without a hassle... just need to press the up arrow key until I find the command... I'll get there eventually

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    [–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

    Last week my brother had to use my laptop and install Rstudio(for some University project) because his Mac was too old and slow. I was out of home so I had to instruct him through the phone and I could hear his awe while he explained how easy was to install the program. He told me laughing that he could see the pacman and started to cheer for it, this made my day.

    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

    Well, true, one of the slowest packaging systems in Linux world is still faster than Windows Update.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

    unattended-upgrades and cron jobs for everything else ftw.

    [–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    No Linux system of mine upgrades itself without my explicit consent. That's one of the many reasons why I don't run Windows.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Setting those up is me explicitly giving my consent for it to upgrade on a schedule.

    [–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

    Yeah alright. That's one way of looking at it πŸ™‚

    I guess what I meant is that I don't like upgrades that happen without me explicitly requesting each and every one of them, and me watching the upgrade process as it happens for errors.

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    [–] Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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    [–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

    ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ enter

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