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LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months agoI love that on my arch setup, I update every single day, usually more than once, and doing so almost never requires me to powercycle my computer.
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There is occasional weirdness if you don’t powercycle though. In particular, certain KDE updates will make the desktop misbehave until you reboot. I get where you’re coming from though. Quick updates and the ability to decide when you want to restart means that I have no qualms about updating frequently.
I am on Arch too and
pacman -Syuis usually a snack I have with my morning tea.XTL@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
If the desktop misbehaves, just restart the desktop (log out and in again)?
coolmojo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can log out, then CTRL + ALT + F1 , log in and run the update command. If there was no kernel update, you don’t have to reboot. If some service got updated restart the service (if that was not done by the updater.) Then you can switch back to the graphical session usually by CTRL + ALT + F7) and log in again.
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Problem with this is that it’s really hard to figure out whether some update to some minor library is going to affect an application. Sometimes you don’t even know which applications are using that library.