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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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# here is where my aliases go yo

alias alias-edit="vim ~/.local/config/alias_config && source ~/.local/config/alias_config && echo 'Alias updated. \n'"


## Modern cli
alias ls="exa"
alias find="fdfind"

## System 76
alias battery-full="system76-power charge-thresholds --profile full_charge"
alias battery-balanced="system76-power charge-thresholds --profile balanced"
alias battery-maxhealth="system76-power charge-thresholds --profile max_lifespan"

## Maintenance
alias update-flatapt="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && flatpak update --assumeyes"

## Misc
alias tree="exa --tree"

## Incus
alias devi-do="sudo incus exec dev0 -- su -l devi"

## Some programs
alias code="flatpak run com.visualstudio.code"
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'd like to one day have the confidence to do upgrade -y

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I always do that. Is that bad on pop os/fedora? I wouldn't know any different. Selectively choose what to update?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently apt has a stroke sometimes. I don't think I've had an update fuck up this bad but it's better to read the output so you know what changed in case something stops working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s by no means a routine upgrade though, the guy just “upgraded to” backports which you’re not even supposed to do. Not comparable to the soothingly boring apt upgrade of Debian stable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

True, it's just an example to always look at the output. I've definitely used that in Fedora to reinstall packages when something stopped working after an upgrade.

(Maybe this doesn't happen by itself in Debian but I wouldn't trust Ubuntu for example)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you haven’t special requirements then just use Debian stable, and never be worried about an update again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or if you like beating your head against a brick wall constantly NixOS is really hard to brick. Any update that fails can just be reverted with a reboot.

Of course the downside is poor documentation, and nothing at all works like you expect it to work. It's like hey, you want to learn Linux again from scratch? And by the way no two things work the same.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Headline: MAJOR EXPLOIT FOUND IN NEW LINUX KERNEL VERSION!

Debian: business as usual...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TBH I don’t even remember the last time some actually important bug came out on the kernel, long gone are the days of ptrace-kmod.c and hatorihanzo.c

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A while back, somewhere around Linux 5.17, some Intel chips in laptops caused the Linux kernal to rapidly set backlight brightness to 100% then zero. This flashing would likely cause it to break. That's the last one I remember only a year or so ago.

This only effected arch an it's varients to my knowledge though, as they were the first to recieve the update, and it was fixed very quickly. To my knowledge nobodies systems were broken from this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes, just like that time when Mandrake kernels burned the cd drives..

https://lwn.net/Articles/55815/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I believe in you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Balls of steel or ironclad backups.

Or, simply, masochism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot apathy. That's what works for me.