Looks like someone forgot to read the arch Linux main page.
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It makes more sense to install an atomic system like ublue or aeon
I have doubts any Arch user would move to dying Ubuntu. There are Arch derivatives for the crowd that no longer has the time to micromanage the OS. CachyOS seems to be the rising star for that crowd, according to https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/linux?platform=linux
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If you're using GRUB and at the same time live without snapshots, you are playing with fire. And for no good reason.
Should the day ever come where systemd-boot or initramfs break, I'll just chroot on my main partition, roll back and regenerate. That's like 3 commands. Easily put into a script for non-tech-savy relatives. Not that this has happened to me in years.
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Thought this would be about Aur being down.
If it's not Void, it's not Linux.
- What in the world are you doing that’d cause grub to get “fucked up” by running an update.
- Just use -Syu, not -Syyu, the latter is for when you swap mirrors or your local index is broken.
Wild stumbling into Saiman says in the wild
It was already pretty ridiculous the process I had to go through to upgrade with ZFS on root, and that was before the infrastructure started getting attacked and making connecting to the update servers unreliable. :(
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