And 80 of them are just VLC player
It that point, you might as well do a clean install, because something will get fucked up.
I’m litterally shocked. It took about 30 minutes, I restarted and its working like it was no-thing-but-a-chicken-wing…
Arch linux after not updating for 2 days.
Upgrading Gentoos that had not been upgraded for a really long while used to be one of my favourite things to do.
What’s the processing machine for? What do you process on it?
Machine learning.
It’s a strix halo machine so I can go big on ram (up to 128gb).
Currently it’s set up for a research project that’ coming to an end. In this paper we’re using time series climate and satellite imagery data to model the long term climate and ecological impact of plantation agriculture.
I basically paused updating because the set up was working and I didn’t want to have it break on me mid project.
edit: also used for piss and shit posting
I last updated my Arch install on 2026-04-22…
I used to get this with Tumbleweed by the time I’ve finished my previous update.
I jest of course but I once had to update it after being away for a week and it had like 14 GB of updates. By the time it finished another 450 MB of updates were available.
Try Slowroll for that kinda stuff. Updates just massively roll in in waves, and numbers above 4000 are not unusual
Try using LyX on Tumbleweed. 5000 packages is not unusual
Net update size: -50MB
Me when I reinstall a game from Steam that I also modded through the Steam Workshop.
Game installs in 5 minutes. The next hour (or day if it was ARMA 3; all the custom maps are HUGE) is the worshop mods getting downloaded and installed 😭
Arma3 mods were the reason that I learned steam cli has an insanely low ttl.
Steam is the only thing I have ever seen hit network speeds that hit the limit of what I pay for from my ISP.
Your ISP must have a colocated Steam cache.
I’m my case, steam has servers in my city. It’s quite satisfying seeing a gigabit line saturated for gigabytes on end
Steam also has servers in my city as well. Once I got gigabit, my drives became the bottleneck.
Shit is snappy as hell
I had 100 Mbps internet. It hit the full limit but some of those mods were BIG.
I get that when I forget to update a Ubuntu VM for a week.
i’m like 80/20 if this is just going to straight bork the machine.
You either test your backups or your lack of backups tests you
Execute order
Sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt auto remove -yNeeds a more concise order name…
There’s a flag for upgrade that will do an update as well. I don’t have it memorized, but you don’t need to “update and upgrade” anymore.
Tiny nits:
apt dist-upgradeis more potentially destructive.- It’s
apt autoremove(no spaces)
Otherwise, I do this every morning on my work machine. It’s very satisfying to have updates.
that’s what backups are for.
If it’s a vm then snapshots are a godsend. Update didn’t work? Revert.
So much hassle just for routine update. Windows seems more stable in comparison.
