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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?

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Get a custom kernel, a few custom repos and an AUR helper like yay. You'll be getting broken stuff quite often.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use yay almost exclusively and have a few AUR stuff. And I used a custom Kernel too (Zen). Nothing broke unfortunately. I'm on EndevourOS, so very close to bare metal Archlinux. But before that I was on Manjaro and had AUR stuff too and was using Pamac (not to be confused with pacman) instead yay. And it broke something all the time.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm on EndeavorOS with yay and repos break all the time.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

Then I'm doing something wrong.