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So technical question... (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have been using Linux for a few years, usually some flavor of Debian. But recently I acquired an older Thinkpad and thought it would behoove me to use something more... involved.
So I chose to dive into Manjaro and only broke pacman once. So now the question... can I say I'm using Arch btw or is that a faux pas?

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[–] HeckGazer 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't update any arch based distro for long enough and your life will be plenty exciting when you do. Bonus points if you use a non-lts kernel that can blip out of existence at any moment along with all the graphics drivers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I learnt this the hard way when I worked out my shutdown script that did this automatically had stopped working :P

[–] Marty 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How long is to long? I've been running the same arch install for a few years and wondering if it supposed to be time for a reinstall?

*I also have backups of all my configs and read the arch news before updating so I'm not really that worried.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Are you not updating it regularly? They said, "Don't update for long enough..."

[–] Marty 2 points 2 months ago

...oh, yeah I miss read that. I took it as don't use arch for to long without reinstalling rather than don't not update for too long. I update about once a week.