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[–] Markaos@lemmy.one 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If it is an Arch-based distro (sorry, I don't recognize the package manager), then this might just be the recent Wine update that made it 700 MB smaller (which would mean the rest of your system grew 300 MB)

I made a post here about it: this one

Btw, is there a way to link to a post in a way that resolves on everyone's separate instance instead of hard coding it to my instance?

[–] juli@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Btw, is there a way to link to a post in a way that resolves on everyone's separate instance instead of hard coding it to my instance?

I'm not sure if it works on Lemmy UI, but on Voyager app, it opens on the same instance I'm in.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

make sure you have a backup

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looks like opensuse which means it makes a snapshot before every upgrade automatically so if anything breaks you just roll back and everything's back to how it was

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It is definitely Zypper and there really is only one distro that uses it and mentioned above

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

that's very convenient and likely enough (but not 100% like a backup on something you can disconnect from the computer)