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So many factors at play.

The number of packages installed, the use of externally unsupported repos, the distro you use, reliability of their packaging system, how much you deviated from the baseline customization, and probably more.

Keeping track of everything off what and how much you changed may prove difficult. But it helps taking notes of how you solved the more complicated issues.

With time you learn to live with the inevitability of something breaking. You update less often, and only when you really have to. Repairing stuff becomes less overwhelmeming with time.

24 years exclusively running it.

Short answer: magic.

Long answer: a stressful full week trying to get everything right, followed by a long, blissful period forgetting how hard it was to get it up and running like magic.

CachyOS, as it’s the one I’m using.

By installing it for them, I can only expect I’ll be also called upon to support it. Thus choosing the one I’m most familiar with right now.

Really liked this one. Creative, smart, beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

The Eastern Kingbird may perhaps rule over the eastern part of the west.

Unix beard was just an evolutionary middle step between.

That’s why I log in through tty. What comes next is anyone’s guess. Nerd wizardry.

“Jod is dead.”
Freedrich Kneetzchuh

Great advice. I rarely use dd, but when I do it always sends chills down my spine.

Chop Suey:

Why’d you leave the kids upon the table?

I still sing it like that for the absurdism.