MyNameIsRichard @ MyNameIsRichard @lemmy.ml

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Your computer is more powerful than machines that sent humans to the moon

My microwave is more powerful than the machines that sent humans to the moon.

I’d say one issue in 8 years is a stellar track record!

Yeah, it's a pretty good track record. It was definitely a failure of communication in that instance, but iirc, they ended up rolling the change back a couple of days later.

I used Tumbleweed for eight or so years before switching to Endeavour and it only really bit me hard once. Update, reboot, and sudo no longer worked! If I had spent a bit more time going through the mailing list, I could have made a simple configuration change before rebooting and saved a lot of stress! It affected nearly everybody who installed that particular image.

I don't use Arch, I use Endeavour because they took Arch and made it better. As to why I used yay as my example, there are two reasons:

1. It's what I use
2. It's nice to show how easy and simple it is when it's done properly and it normally takes 5 seconds, more when you have to do something. No wading through busy mailing lists hoping to spot an issue. I'm looking at you Debian and Tumbleweed!

Fixed release fixes known bugs before pushing packages.

So do rolling releases. What's your point?

Oh yes, the most mythical of software. Bug free.

Anyone who is not curious enough to type yay -Pw before typing yay should probably stick with something like Windows. And even then, you should watch out for the rare manual intervention.

Edit: Tone.

I used to think that, then I learnt the truth. Now-a-days, I say that you may as well use a rolling release because it's not really any more work that a fixed release and you have up to date software.

you just have to watch every news post for manual interventions before every update, oh, and you better update very often

You have to watch the factory mailing list and make any manual interventions for Tumbleweed, and frankly, you should be watching the news and taking any action required no matter the os.

There's always one. Twenty years ago, or today, there's always one.

That kind of popup, I'm OK with.

It doesn't really, not compared to what goes on in the office. What little there is, is in public and often exaggerated by commentators.

Aber die haben auch Zähne!

Ah yes, getting in touch with your inner self.

It is awesome, in the same way a planet killer asteroid heading straight for us is awesome!

If you run endeavour, you are basically getting Arch with a familiar installer, a few useful helper scripts, and a friendly community. You are still expected to know your hardware and your install. You are still expected to keep up with the Arch news, and make any manual interventions required. If you do that, endeavour is remarkably reliable.

Recently endeavour changed the way they deal with some firmware related packages

Actually, that was Arch and as Endeavour uses the Arch repositories + the AUR, and their own repository for their additions, they were naturally affected.

Will it ever be solved?

I love how Eddie plays with the toy so lazily in the first video 💖

Yeah, they're preparing to follow the US into another dodgy war.