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    6 minutes ago

    I prefer Sudo Nala upgrade. It pulls updates before upgrading and does parallel downloads, saturating my 2GB download.

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    2 hours ago

    I have no artistic skills so freebie: Arch is like Russian roulette where the odds are good but there is still a non-zero chance some update is going to shit the bed. I don’t even know how to convey that in meme form either.

  • kionay@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The user interface on the left and the command prompt on the right does kinda highlight a barrier to mass Linux adoption.

    if we want more people on Linux let’s normalize not having to use the command line for everything.

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        9 hours ago

        You are in luck because you can make this an alias (custom command) in your .bashrc file:

        alias update='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'

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    As someone who works on Windows daily… this is so true. One of the things that really annoys me with Windows is being able to reliably do updates. Running any of the update stuff, seems more like a suggestion and if Windows deems your request worthy, it might SLOWLY do something.

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      10 minutes ago

      Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate

      That will install the module required for Windows Update command line

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      15 hours ago

      Winget update --all

      But yes, this updates any packages distributed by Ms store and winget repos. As an IT professional, I love winget.

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        My first introduction to winget as a sysadmin was horrible. Why Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to make winget reliant on the user environment still baffles me. Why on earth would they require admin rights for some commands if you need to have logged into the system once?! Even the user created for LAPS does not have that requirement!

        Even getting it to run through a service on system level requires you to find the nondescript directory of the executable (which may or may not he the same on other devices!) To get basic functionality going. But even with the --ignore-unknown flag (because it is not able to determine the version of packages when run through a service) winget will refuse to update without a user environment.

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        Winget is a step in the right direction… but man it is SO SLOW. If PowerBI Desktop has an update, it is actually taking me 20+ minutes to update a handful of apps.

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      Which will try to update all 3 apps that are available via winget. It will break one of them. It has 50% chance of bonking some drivers.

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          4315 packages

          It’s not nothing, and the effort is commendable. Def more than three. Dare I say it’s even more than five.
          Yet, in a grand scheme of things, it’s indistinguishable from three.

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            13 hours ago

            If NT is given as much time as the Linux kernel has had to mature then I’m sure they’ll have more packages built for it over the years.

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              What does this even mean? Windows as an operating system has existed since 1985, and NT has been around since 1993. Linux initial release was 1991.

              Microsoft has had all the time in the world.

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    KDE Plasma recommends applying updates at reboot like Windows for stability. In fact, that is how it does them by default

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    Aaaand… you’re on Debian, so Blender 4.0 just got added to the testing branch. (Blender 4.0 still haven’t been tested for 168 hours of continuous running without touching it)

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      It’s a good thing system packages (which should follow a conservative update approach if possible to guarantee system stability, unless hardware demands newer packages) and user applications (which you’d usually want to be most up-to-date) are increasingly isolated from each other and mostly able to follow their own schedules. Also improves security and such.