That should be more than enough ram for your quad-core cpu

Yeah but you’d need to do it for *everything* that’s affected, which is a lot.

Forced updates are bad if they bork you system, sure. If you know what you are doing it’s also mostly fine to skip a few. But the truth of the matter is that 95% of users wouldn’t ever update their system if they didn’t have to. Then half of them infect their system with ransomware and the other half get to join a huge botnet.

We’ve had that before and I wouldn’t want to go back. A few bored systems because of updates are probably preferable to at least as many lost to malware, where data is often unrecoverable.

The problem is that the all those apps installed as dependencies will get marked as unused and removed with the next --autoremove (which you should probably do regularly to clean up old kernels.

The real fix would be to mark all those apps as explicitly installed, but I don’t use apt-based distros regularly so idk how.

Distrobox would like a word, or so I’ve heard. Haven’t had to use it yet, as the AUR has pretty much everything.

We’ve lost two this week

I use Arch btw

That’s definitely not true, Raspberry Pi OS works and acts like a normal Debian installation per default - with root mounted rw and all.

Other than that, there isn’t much “treating like an HDD/SSD” going on, it just writes to flash when an application requests it does. If the underlying storage is an eeprom, an sdcard nvme storage doesn’t really change anything here.

Most SD cards aren’t really suitable for the kind of workload an operating system generates (that being mostly random i/o). Make sure to get a reputable A2 (application class 2) rated card, they aren’t that expensive but perform way better.

Raspberry Pi themselves launched a card recently, I haven’t tried that one but it’s probably a good choice too.

I don’t understand. If you’re overwhelmed by settings just don’t open them? You don’t “need” them, like ever.

You can do the same on Plasma. Switch by three-finger-swipe

A gigabyte of drive space is something like 10-20 cents on a good SSD.

Half of these don’t even handle logging

I see, you haven’t been to the phoronix forum in a while. Enjoy. Comments: systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024

2024 was a great start with the release of Plasma 6, and the Pros of Wayland now generally outweighing the Cons.

More than 50% of Windows users have trouble entering my front door during a state I call unlocked. Unfortunately that isn’t a joke, but there are extenuating circumstances.

I mean when I can take an Arch Linux installation that I forgot about on my server and is now 8 years out of date and simply manually update the key ring and then be up to date

That won’t work, old pacman versions can’t deal with the fact that packages are now zstandard compressed. In fact, the window were you could successful do the update without a whole bunch of additional work was something like a couple of months. Certainly a whole lot less than a year.

The OS would crash entirely before that happens

Those bitflips are probably more likely to skip the section erroneously than waiting for the array to be sorted.

I don’t know, but I think it’s works on Wayland too. Probably something built in.