EndeavourOS users are clever Otherwise you wouldn’t have chosen a distribution so close to Arch. If you have chosen EndeavourOS because you have heard so many good things of the community and Arch in general - these tips on updating the system may prove invaluable knowledge on your journey. A cou…

In general, this is all solid advice. I do have some differences in how I update my system. I think update notifiers are pointless on an distro that uses Arch repos. Unless you updated in the last few hours, it’s fairly safe to assume that there is an update available. I do use this script to sa…

3 Arch based systems I’ve installed and not one of them ever just froze during a update. Might have taken awhile to finish a update, but freeze during no. The only time I update the mirrors and databases is when I’m told the update can’t be done, that normally means that one of the two is out of dat…

[image] Kresimir: I never update from the TTY. I did that on Manjaro, and it somewhat makes sense there Yes - the magnitude of updates on Manjaro - does seem to increase the possibility of stalling an update. But in the event your window manager, xorg or display drivers (especially nvidia) …

[image] Root: EndeavourOS users are clever :enos_flag:

Rocksolid as ever (✯ᴗ✯) nothing to add or drag (◍•ᴗ•◍)

Simply switching to a TTY doesn’t help very much because X and the DE/WM continue to run (traditionally on “F7”). If you really want to be on a more secure side, you change runlevel: systemctl isolate multi-user.target which is systemd-ish for the traditional init 3.

[image] anon31687413: Simply switching to a TTY doesn’t help very much because X and the DE/WM continue to run If you don’t log out you are correct - but even if you don’t the TTY let’s you do things uninterrupted - I think I mentioned logout too.

Switching runlevels (should) automatically logs you out. You’re basically closing the graphical session and starting a new non-graphical session. [image] Kresimir: It seems to me that updating from the TTY is a myth Today, yes, I think I would agree. Many years back though, it was sort of a…

[image] anon31687413: [image] Kresimir: It seems to me that updating from the TTY is a myth Today, yes, I think I would agree. I told you - EndeavourOS users are smart - so are Arch users. How do you suggest a user attracted by all the positivity surrounding EndeavourOS should handle…

Fair enough, but [image] Root: on a maintenance neglected system you should not neglect maintenance on a rolling release distro. Maybe that’s something’s worth adding to your list?

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