I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?
You didn't specify which problem or which thing that broke. However (and based on my previous experiences on that matter), one could face a problem regarding package PGP/GPG signatures upon trying to update. This is because
archlinux-keyringis not being updated before the signature checking. That said, a better approach is to always updatearchlinux-keyring(sudo pacman -S --needed archlinux-keyring) before anything else (sudo pacman -Syu). This way, you guarantee to be up-to-date with developer signatures, needed for pacman to check the validity for every package to be updated/installed. There's also apacman-keycommand, but I never had to use that.Get a custom kernel, a few custom repos and an AUR helper like yay. You'll be getting broken stuff quite often.
Try run reflector
run0 reflector -l 10 -f 5 >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlistI was waiting for this moment 😹😹😹
But I actually am using run0
I have no actual problem with it, the only reason I don't is that it's harder to type
That's true... But once you get used to it, you don't even notice that you write run0
Thanks—I am running the zen kernel because I didn’t really understand the question during archinstall, and have added an AUR helper but still no lack of joy.
I’ll definitely give this a go—probably on Friday afternoon.
I misunderstood your post. This command I told you is to make things better, not worse haha
If you really wanna make your Arch unstable, you may wanna install every single package with
pacman -Sy <packagename>Also maybe you wanna install everything from AUR
lol! There’s such a mix of people being genuinely helpful and people telling me the joke is past its sell-by date. But I hadn’t come across reflector before and will definitely give it a go—thanks :)
Please don't run arbitrary commands just because someone on the Internet told you to use them.
The arch wiki will tell you all you need to know and more.
What on earth went wrong?
Arch is just as safe as any other distro, sometimes more so. Being a rolling jobbie, smaller bits tend to break at a time. If you want to live life on the edge then Gentoo is your man but even Gentoo is becoming pretty safe. You might lose your windowing system for a while but you still have links2 to get to a search engine.
