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I'm a happy arch plasma user on my laptop. At home I have a very fast internet connection and I pacman -Syu every day or 2 days.
On september I'll go to University where the internet connection IS VERY BAD AND SLOW. Every month I'll return home.
What is better for best system performance:
1. Do a pacman -Syu at home ONCE A MONTH.
or
2. Reinstall a fresh system EVERY MONTH (with my scripts and fast connection I get up the whole system in half an hour).
Thank much!
[SOLVED] According your comments I realize that the best option is PACMAN -SYU ONCE A MONTH. Thank you all archers.
Last edited by sofiasmith (2016-08-26 15:40:08)
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Once a month.
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Once a month should be fine, just make sure you check the front page of the archlinux site to make sure you don't miss any major changes.
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How bad and slow? Dialup or....?
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Why don't you just ask your secretary to do it?
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Once a month.
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Arch changes a lot, but reinstalling every month because you've missed updates for that period is taking it too far.
Even when you haven't updated in a year and missed major changes like the pacman hook update, you can get along by using the Arch Linux Archive (for intermediary updates) or the latest ISO (with pacman --root). With delayed KDE updates, you might have to remove old configuration files in your user account, though.
Last edited by Alad (2016-08-25 12:41:36)
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