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When and how often do you update your system? (feddit.org)
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I am kind of new to Linux. I started with nobara and got comfortable with the overall feel of Linux. Then a few weeks ago I switched over to cashyos, to try something new.

But what I wonder all the time: How often should I update my system? With Windows there were some updates happening in the background about every week and it was not necessary nor possible to manage them in detail.

But now on Linux I get update notification sometimes twice a day. I am also aware, that cashyos is doing roling updates. As I understand it, this means they are pushing them without much delay for testing. Is this a reason to wait a little before applying new updates so bugs can be fixed? But when I wait, arent there always new updates coming in? Also those Bugfixes would also be updates that I would then delay.

How are you handling it? And how are your experiences?

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Aye. I've been on Tumbleweed on my main desktop for ~2 years at this point. It's really stable. There's been some smaller things I've troubleshooted myself. For example, at some point GDM changed their monitor settings, so in the login screen I'd have a terribly low refresh rate, and when logging in my screen would flash black. I had no idea what exactly was the culprit, but with some digging I found out how to fix that. This here gave me the fix.

Other than that, literally the only problems I've ever had has been because NVidia has gone and fucked something with their drivers. That's happened a handful of times, but I wouldn't put that blame on the distro.

Snapper is such a fantastic tool. Regardless of what distro one uses I'd highly recommend snapper. It comes baked into Tumbleweed, and I manually configured it on my Arch laptop.