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How happy are you with your current distro? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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

Another pro tip: You don't need to update Arch every day.
I update about once a month. Just make sure you read the news and deal with your .pacnew files.

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

I've gone months between updates. On servers, that's a little more risky because it CVEs, which can also apply to the kernel, but LTS is probably safe enough there: if there's a kernel CVE, LTS will be updated.

I've had trouble with pinning the kernel before, though. Last time I did it, I went several months and forgotten I'd done it, and my system got itself wedged because some package was expecting a newer kernel; it took me a while to figure out.

LTS might be a better option, since that will be caught be dependency management. Pinning can cause version dependency mismatch issues.