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  • psilotop@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Can someone help explain the meme? I know what pacman -Syu does (I use arch btw) but I actually don’t know why this would be a meme.

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      3 hours ago

      “Arch isn’t a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!”

      (Which is true until something goes wrong and now you’re way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)

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        3 hours ago

        Ah I gotcha. People are saying it will fix everything.

        I actually do use Arch, I played with distros for years and settled on Manjaro for a while. I’m rethinking that choice since they let their certs expire for the second time…

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        Eh. Admittedly, my experience with non-rolling distros is old, but I’d rather take “something minor breaks every couple weeks” over “I tried upgrading the system and now I can’t even get working shell commands if I chroot over from a live USB”.

        Admittedly, that was when I tried upgrading to Fedora Core 5 (or was it upgrading from there?), so ancient history.