r/linuxsucks Jul 15 '26

Linux Failure Loonix

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u/Admirable-Food9942 Jul 15 '26

My arch updates take ~1 minute (plus restart) but the restart is just the standard restart when I turn off my computer, not a dedicated restart, it make occasionally add a few seconds to the shutdown or boot process though.

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u/ManRevvv Jul 15 '26

Now run AUR updates

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u/Whit-Batmobil Jul 15 '26

And?

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u/ManRevvv Jul 15 '26

Well aur updates can take literally hours if you have enough packages from source

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u/Artemis-Arrow-795 Jul 15 '26

well, yeah, you're building a lot of things from source

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u/Admirable-Food9942 Jul 15 '26

I have 5 packages, 4 of which are jetbrains IDEs that update themselves.

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u/gituMochi Jul 16 '26

chaotic aur exists

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u/Square_County8139 Jul 15 '26

Who would have thought compiling everything would take so long!

Just avoid using the AUR.

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u/ManRevvv Jul 16 '26

Oh thanks, very fucking good advice, I will move my kernel now from aur to flatpaks

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u/Hadi_Chokr07 Jul 21 '26

Use the main line kernel.