Hey, I’m totally new to the “Arch Linux based distros” world. Is this true that I can totally block my machine if I don’t do updates regularly ? I want to use EndeavourOS but I’m afraid of bricking my computer if i go on vacation Thanks in advance I’m sorry if the question has already been answered…

no, as alrerady others have said, its just that updating can become more difficult and longer and complicated with depending on how many changes and/or big changes had happened in the meantime, and there errors can occur. so if you are gone for a while its best to still somewhat keep up with the ne…

[image] Arch/Endeavour OS - Is it ACTUALLY unstable? A one year review! Linux lounge Happy Birthday to my Arch install. [derek@archcinnamon ~]$ stat / | grep Birth Birth: 2020-05-01 07:55:16.000000000 -0700 [derek@archcinnamon ~]$ So, it seems so many times…

It’s not more likely to go wrong if you update every couple of weeks, it’s just that there may be more manual interventions to apply at once, and it can be harder to trace what the actual problem is should it go wrong. The reality is that, if you keep up with the news and take any action required, …

You do not need to update every day or every week. I have endeavouros virtual machines which have been updated after 2 month being inactive and that worked just fine. If you do not want to update too often I suggest that you define a maintenance plan for yourself. E.g. Put every Sunday on your cal…

Welcome to EndeavourOS. Personal experience: Last time I updated with ~6months gap and Nvidia driver caused some issues. Fixed with chroot + with help of amazing forum members. For safety just keep your /home partition separately or if possible even better on another disk.

[image] Jocabin: Is this true that I can totally block my machine if I don’t do updates regularly ? No. However what is true is that your more inept to have issues Such as Manual Interventions that don’t go well. [image] Jocabin: I want to use EndeavourOS but I’m afraid of bricking my co…

Rarely a system breaks beyond repair. Unless the user have been involved in something nefarious to the system. Make sure you have a live usb with EOS iso. Pay close attention to the messages in the terminal when you run the update. The error messages, in case there are any, are often key to the so…

No. I think this is being misinterpreted. If you don’t update frequently enough, it can make the update process more difficult. It won’t cause your machine to fail. However, when say frequently, it means something like at least a once per month. Don’t take it to mean you need to update every day. …

[image] Jocabin: Is this true that I can totally block my machine if I don’t do updates regularly No, however sometimes “manual” intervention is needed. If people don’t read the news and just update and reboot it might give some problems. I am almost a year on endeavour os and i didn´t get lo…

Here’s a real-world example of what an update might consist of if neglected for a very long time: [image] Arch installation updated after 3 years of neglect EndeavourOS pub While updating an SSD that used to be my daily driver (the Debian-base SolydXK), but wa…

A nice command can be used too in the terminal yay -Pww

EndeavourOS updates cycle

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Stagger_Lee December 28, 2025, 5:28pm 11

Here’s a real-world example of what an update might consist of if neglected for a very long time: