It’s the same command always for upgrading 1 package or 1000.
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On EndeavourOS there is no concept of major releases. All the packages on the system continually roll forward. If something like a DE is updated you will just get more updates than usual that day.
When you see announcements for releases those are new ISOs but installed systems will be getting updates all along.
There is one important thing to note about a rolling release distro and that is because all packages roll forward in a unit it is essential that you ensure your system is updated before installing packages.
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So then the EndeavourOS differs from Manjaro Linux from this point of view, which is also based on a rolling release, but during development, major versions are published from time to time, such as now.
nope, Manjaro releases are also just snapshots thrown into an ISO, just like here on EndeavourOS. Their Repositories also keep on rolling after the snapshot is created.
EndeavourOS just does not do the hassle of naming every ISO as a “release version” with names and such.
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In any case, Manjaro more often issues “stable” versions (on average every three weeks) than EOS, but this is their development concept, especially because of beginner users.
What Manjaro does is sort of in the middle. They group updates into “stable releases” and release them in batches.
I don’t think this is true anymore. The last major ISO release was named “Atlantis”
Hm so if I get it right, just type like normal update command “yay” also do update major stuff like new version of desktop environment, that usually comes on major release. Before I used Fedora gnome and updated between 33 and 34 (to Gnome 40), it warned to turn off gnome extensions that maybe didn’t function correct in new gnome 40 version, it must mean it is really important in Endevour and Manjaro to be extra careful what each update contains…? I maybe sound odd or uncareful saying this but I’m not always paid attention to read what the update is about, but just update. It must be dangerous doing that while using rolling release in such cases.
Yes.
There are no major releases. It just rolls continuously forward. That means you will get a continuous stream of smaller updates instead big version releases where there is lots of change all at once.
Don’t gnome extensions get disabled automatically when they aren’t compatible with the current version?
You should always review the list so you know what is coming but generally speaking you will always do the update anyway.
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Thank you very much for your reply and clarification on how it works. And about the Gnome thing, while using Fedora I got told from the how-to guide of the upgrade I was using to manually disable gnome extensions as it could be issues if it was not compatible in the new version, If it works automatically I don’t know, i just followed that recommendation and disabled manually before upgrade.