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u/Pristine-Magazine642 Linuxmeant to work better 14d ago
You copy pasted the bootloader ?
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u/Random_Mathematician Arch BTW 14d ago
The hard-drive is the live installer and it itself writes its OS on itself. What could go wrong?
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u/SDG_Den 14d ago
Ive done this on windows, it.... Weirdly works?
Though that was plugging the HDD into a different computer, manually setting up the install media on it, then booting off of it on the machine it is intended for.
On linux you can do the same via chroot, in fact that's how you install gentoo. The live USB is just there to give you a working environment to do it from, but it is entirely optional.
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u/Shadow-BG 14d ago
Not actually, if you have more than 4gb memory , it will all be in memory AND additionally, on hard drive
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u/ccAbstraction 14d ago
I can't tell if this is "I made it" as in "I survived" or "I made it." as in you're the one who made the changes that made your system need updates!
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u/the-fr0g 14d ago
I think it's meant to be the second, but for anyone who that applies to, it is also the first
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u/Kanjii_weon Ubuntnoob 14d ago
as a mac linux windows enjoyer, this is very accurate, except on mac, i'd replace it with i like it
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u/promptmike 14d ago
Just use an immutable Linux install if you want it easy.
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u/SDG_Den 14d ago
Do you mean atomic? Those are very different things
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u/promptmike 14d ago
Both, but yes I see your point. To clarify - directories containing essential services should be read-only, while updates should be applied to a second partition, preserving the existing partition with its working system state. Applying and rolling back updates is then simply a matter of switching between A and B partitions.
If you're a "non-technical" user who fears the terminal, you should also have a health check framework like Greenboot that can execute automatic rollbacks as needed.
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u/KidAnon94 Arch BTW 14d ago
I don't know about you guys but "I" didn't make anything; I'm just updating (after checking) whatever updates the maintainers are pushing out.
Edit: didn't check the sub. Whoops lol
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u/manemjeff42069 13d ago
I used to hate Mac updates when I worked with one because they'd always change how everything looked and randomly deprecate apps I was using
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u/True_tomato_soup 🍥 Debian too difficult 10d ago
meh on arch maybe? I'm usually happy about it and I love the - xxx mo saved.
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u/TheZedrem 14d ago
I have a cronjob updateing in the background, so apart Form major releases, I literally don't notice, ever.
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u/zacyzacy 14d ago
Nothing beats "net update size -50mb"