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I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

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[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
[–] bkuri@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How would using the AUR help with stability?

(unless you're being sarcastic, in which case an /s might make things clearer)

[–] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think they said that because OP wrote "not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?" making it sound like the problem is that they haven't experienced anything break yet.

[–] bkuri@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, ok... That makes more sense.

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AUR packages tend to break more often compared to repos ie. anything on AUR that utilizes python needs to be rebuilt if system python is updated.

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