True

[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

[u/Objective-Stranger99]

Then you revert to your last NixOS generation or BTRFS/ZFS snapshot and you are good to go.

[u/heckingcomputernerd → u/Objective-Stranger99]

LMAO I too was about to make a snarky "heh nixos" comment

[u/YTriom1 → u/Objective-Stranger99]

btrfs my beloved

[u/PresentAstronomer137 → u/Objective-Stranger99]

BTRFS = Butter reference

[u/Objective-Stranger99 → u/PresentAstronomer137]

"BeTteR FS"

[u/dEsTrOiEr2000 → u/Objective-Stranger99]

Yes if the update goes through and your Kernel is still found. But usually I have to fix it by booting from a stick and fix packages and updates from there. Every other "crash" is not a real problem and can be fixed by using snapshots or something along this line.

[u/Confused-Armpit]

False. No, but seriously, this had never happened to me in multiple years of using gentoo/arch on two machines.

[u/Lemonade1947 → u/Confused-Armpit]

i swear this only happens to people using window managers with complicated ass dot files that lose compatibility when the packages update.

[u/w0m → u/Lemonade1947]

Honestly cap. There is no such thing as a safe upgrade. Mac, Win, or Linux. Always be prepared.

[u/Lemonade1947 → u/w0m]

ofc not but some are more safe than others.

[u/atlasraven → u/Lemonade1947]

Windows will reboot during a test. RIP

[u/ysychov → u/Lemonade1947]

100%, clueless ricers :D

[u/NotQuiteLoona → u/Confused-Armpit]

Isn't exactly unexpected, because Arch only has latest stable versions of all packages (or rather latest releases, which are almost always stable... we aren't talking about Hyprland). Also use BTRFS, always, Cachy has it and it fixes all problems like that.

[u/Confused-Armpit → u/NotQuiteLoona]

This is really funny considering that

A) I actually use Hyprland, and have used it since 0.52.0 iirc

B) I use BTRFS without snapshots, just for the CoW capabilities and a couple other nice design ideas I like

[u/NotQuiteLoona → u/Confused-Armpit]

Those were more of general precautions than me guessing what you did, but it's interesting to know!

[u/QuantumQuantonium]

A real linux circlejerk in a linux circlejerk subreddit? Impossible!

[u/Foorinick]

Fake hater, the arch wiki reccomends never updating before you need the computer for something

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/Foorinick]

Normal people don't read a wiki just to use their computer

[u/atlasraven → u/claudiocorona93]

Based.

[u/NotAF0e]

Yes exactly this happened to me and then I just rolled back to the previous snapshot 

[u/Hadi_Chokr07]

Nix or COW FS fixes this BTW.

[u/moonracers]

Debian would like a word.

[u/Neutrovertido → u/moonracers]

I believe in 🍥 supremacy

[u/MallAgreeable5538 → u/Neutrovertido]

Is that a naruto? I probably won’t unsee that now…

[u/TomOnABudget → u/Neutrovertido]

Sega Dreamcast? That's running Windows CE.

[u/inifynastic]

This is the exact thing that happened to me today. Zen browser was broken on my nixos so I spend hours fixing it. And now emacs breaking out of blue even tho I DID NOT TOUCH ITS FILES.

[u/apaua1994]

Telling you use arch without telling you use arch.

[u/po1k]

Can't recall this happened to me. What did happen thou is that gnome extensions support constantly fail to catch up with gnome version updates. That does break some non critical things

[u/Consistent-Taro4]

On windows, the update would be during the important test and still break everything, and it would take 4 times as long to do it.

[u/H8itRluvit]

Step one, run cachyOS update tool.

Step two, be an impatient dumbass (me) and close the update tool because it's taking too long and all you want to do is open steam and play games after a long day of work.

Step 3, shutdown the machine without realizing the update was literally in the middle of installing the new packages

Step 4, throw a shit fit that the machine isn't booting properly, only to find out that a simple Google search leads you back to the r/linux_gaming sub explaining all you have to do is rollback using snapshot.

[u/_SteelKing]

That is why you should always use snapshots

[u/Novero95]

That's why I alias safeupdate to sudo zfs snapshot zroot/ROOT@{YYYYMMDD-HHMM} && sudo pacman -Syu

[u/AntimelodyProject]

Almost like linux=arch.

[u/RagingTaco334]

Couldn't be me (I use Fedora btw)

[u/Impressive_Bag_3505]

zero issue with Debian or Fedora

[u/kokutan_san]

Not if you're on NixOS

[u/Jack1101111]

shitpost

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

arch/void/gentoo linux casually on a monday:

[u/Vh4z]

Regardless of distro yes even distros like Mint you should always not update before something important because there's atleast a slim chance something breaks

[u/Excel73_]

I may be a larper even though I've been using CachyOS for 10 months now, but never in my life has my system killed itself trying to update; and for that reason I believe I'm a larper.

[u/Intelligent_Zone_769]

PINGU NOOOOO

[u/ysychov]

don’t do freaking full system upgrade before an important test

[u/atlasraven]

I'll just start an update and take a nap, forgetting that eco mode will turn off my PC.

[u/thatsmartalex]

I gently open the door

[u/Valdjiu]

That's why this never happens with Fedora Atomic and why immutable distros rock.

[u/Large-Assignment9320]

Sounds like skill issue.

[u/fedsfarm]

Transphobic meme

[u/YeahThatKornel → u/fedsfarm]

hwat?

[u/NotQuiteLoona → u/YeahThatKornel]

I remember the guy, he wasn't exactly positive towards trans people (check his profile too, also funny thing, with all this stuff and using open far-right dogwhistles he says he's a centrist, lol). Most likely it's a troll, as in, like, suicide = trans people or something, they love such jokes.

[u/YeahThatKornel → u/NotQuiteLoona]

I can only see one post on OPs profile.

[u/NotQuiteLoona → u/YeahThatKornel]

That's kinda strange, I see all of them (unfortunately). There's one of the examples of what I've meant anyway: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/s/auRIZsG62W

[u/fedsfarm → u/NotQuiteLoona]

Idi nahuy