Using yay -Syu or yay -Syyu

When you update your system on :enos: , just type

yay

yay is an alias for yay -Syu
yay is an AUR helper that is wrapper around pacman (the package manager)

Read more about pacman here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman

pacman -Syu

updates your system.
You only use

pacman -Syyu

when you update your mirrors.
the y in Syu is for refreshing the database

Type

man pacman

for further information

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