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    [–] tal@olio.cafe 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I'm not familiar with Arch's updating scheme, but I'd bet that it's pretty similar to Red Hat's and Debian's. If you don't complete an update, boot it up


    even if it's in a semi-broken state


    and just start the update again. Even if the thing dies right in the middle of updating something boot-critical, so that it can't boot, you can probably just use liveboot media, mount the drives in question, start a chrooted-to-your-regular-root-partition root shell, and restart the update.

    Doing that and installing or reinstalling packages is a pretty potent tool to fix a system. It's not absolutely impossible that you can manage to hork a system up badly enough to render it still unusable in that situation


    I once wiped ld.so from a system, for example, and had to grab another copy and manually put it in place to get stuff dynamically-linked stuff like the package manager working again. But that'll deal with the great majority of problems you could create.

    [–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

    I’ve done this countless times. My case was weird since I had a monitor that managed to regularly destroy my system but the gist is the same.

    Got to a point where I put a text file on my live stick to copy-paste the commands to untangle the clusterfuck. Could probably format it to a bash script but I’m lazy Β―\(ツ)/Β―

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That's why I like OpenSUSE. If anything went wrong and system couldn't boot properly you just choose an older snapshot.

    [–] MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I agree, I do the same in NixOS with Generations

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, also an awesome distro. My wife's laptop is running nixOS

    [–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Isn't that because of BTRFS? I also use Snapshots on my Arch system

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

    Basically, yes. OpenSuse is nice because it comes with everything already set up, including bootable snapshots through the bootloader.

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

    Yes, BTRFS combined with auto snapshots whenever you make system changes. So if you install a package, remove a package, or adjust anything like network settings or services, etc. you then have a snapshot to rollback to. Also, auto cleanup based on time or number of snapshots.

    So out-of-the-box even as a new Linux user if you make a mess you just reboot to an earlier time, (which is read-only at first) if all is good and functions as you like you do a

    sudo snapper rollback

    And your current snapshot you are in becomes the bootable default.

    if i had any money i would donate it instead of just lighting a candle

    [–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Linux god’s

    Linux god’s what?

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago

    Tbh arch is very resilient and easy to fix

    [–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    This is the way.

    Blood sacrifices used used to be needed; but now that the congregation is large, candles and incense are preferred.

    spoiler

    (Remember to bathe.)

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Wait, what? Are you trying to say I don't have to sacrifice a goat every time I start the Linux Mint update manager?

    [–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

    Have to? No.

    Should you? Yes. The theatrics really liven up the day.

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Is this a render? If so, it looks damn good! (And hopefully rendered on Arch)

    [–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Real picture taken on a Sony A7S, thx :D

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 month ago

    Ah I see, really cool nonetheless, it's a great composition!

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Looks real tbh

    Would have taken more effort to render than to just take the picture (if op already had a macro lens and an arch sticker)

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Of course, but an Arch user would definitely fit the more effortful path kind, though taking a great picture might actually be harder between the fiddling with parameters and the set design

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

    You really should update more than once per week on Arch.