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When and how often do you update your system? (feddit.org)
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I am kind of new to Linux. I started with nobara and got comfortable with the overall feel of Linux. Then a few weeks ago I switched over to cashyos, to try something new.

But what I wonder all the time: How often should I update my system? With Windows there were some updates happening in the background about every week and it was not necessary nor possible to manage them in detail.

But now on Linux I get update notification sometimes twice a day. I am also aware, that cashyos is doing roling updates. As I understand it, this means they are pushing them without much delay for testing. Is this a reason to wait a little before applying new updates so bugs can be fixed? But when I wait, arent there always new updates coming in? Also those Bugfixes would also be updates that I would then delay.

How are you handling it? And how are your experiences?

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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I’m unsure how much testing is done on Cachy. I’m on Tumbleweed, which is a rolling release with a focus on stability.

There isn’t much point in waiting to apply updates because new builds roll in fairly frequently. It’s not always the same packages of course, but most rolling release distros are on the bleeding edge, it’s kind of the point.

I update a couple of times a month. Around every 7-14 days. You want to avoid letting it go for too long, because as changes accumulate the risks of more complicated conflicts and breakages arising increase.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Have been running Tumbleweed on an old laptop for a couple of years that I update now and then, only time something broke was when plasma 6 was released and that was because of third party themes, reset to standard themes and everything worked again. Also have a gaming computer running Tumbleweed since October that i update almost daily, no issues yet on that one.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Aye. I've been on Tumbleweed on my main desktop for ~2 years at this point. It's really stable. There's been some smaller things I've troubleshooted myself. For example, at some point GDM changed their monitor settings, so in the login screen I'd have a terribly low refresh rate, and when logging in my screen would flash black. I had no idea what exactly was the culprit, but with some digging I found out how to fix that. This here gave me the fix.

    Other than that, literally the only problems I've ever had has been because NVidia has gone and fucked something with their drivers. That's happened a handful of times, but I wouldn't put that blame on the distro.

    Snapper is such a fantastic tool. Regardless of what distro one uses I'd highly recommend snapper. It comes baked into Tumbleweed, and I manually configured it on my Arch laptop.

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