Options on how to update

I take daily timeshift snapshots. I typically don’t read the news on www.archlinux.org, unless I encounter a problem.

I just open a terminal emulator (I use Konsole, btw) and type:

cu

This runs my "checkupdates; yay -Qua" wrapper. If it says that I need to reboot after updating, I take note of that.

Then I run:

yay

and enter my password. I let everything update, I check the diffs in PKGBUILD for the AUR packages, etc… Then, if cu told me to reboot, I reboot.

I do this every other day or so, when I remember to do it and I’m not in the middle of doing something.

On Manjaro, I used to do updates in the TTY, but now I noticed there is no need for that on a pure Arch system. If something breaks, there’s timeshift, but so far, I haven’t had any problems with updating (I don’t use GNOME, so that’s probably why :wink: ).

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