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You're probably being downvoted because you say "Not Again" to updates while using a rolling release distro. Like ordering a daily newspaper, then getting annoyed at getting a new issue every day.
Just because I use rolling doesn't mean I am mandated to update every minute of my life. There are times when I'm genuinely excited for an update like for example when KDE does something new. Pretty much everything else is just little tweaks and bug fixes that will most likely result in me reading docs and figuring out what went wrong.
Sure, but the common consensus seems to be that you shouldn't be annoyed at the constant updates when that's an explicit feature of that system. Maybe that's just a misreading, but I assume the expected reaction would be "Not now" rather than "Not again".
(I'm not taking a position, as I've never worked with a rolling distro and can't really comment on either stance, just trying to navigate the confusion here)
My reaction is more of "not now". Not again might happen when something breaks. So every update is a little gamble for me.
Fair enough, I guess that nuance got lost then
You're not mandated to update often but its encouraged.
It can be a lot easier, for example, to fix one small break three times than it is to fix 3 breaks at one time.