• CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world
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        You are in luck because you can make this an alias (custom command) in your .bashrc file:

        alias update='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'

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    As someone who works on Windows daily… this is so true. One of the things that really annoys me with Windows is being able to reliably do updates. Running any of the update stuff, seems more like a suggestion and if Windows deems your request worthy, it might SLOWLY do something.

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      Winget update --all

      But yes, this updates any packages distributed by Ms store and winget repos. As an IT professional, I love winget.

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        My first introduction to winget as a sysadmin was horrible. Why Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to make winget reliant on the user environment still baffles me. Why on earth would they require admin rights for some commands if you need to have logged into the system once?! Even the user created for LAPS does not have that requirement!

        Even getting it to run through a service on system level requires you to find the nondescript directory of the executable (which may or may not he the same on other devices!) To get basic functionality going. But even with the --ignore-unknown flag (because it is not able to determine the version of packages when run through a service) winget will refuse to update without a user environment.

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        Winget is a step in the right direction… but man it is SO SLOW. If PowerBI Desktop has an update, it is actually taking me 20+ minutes to update a handful of apps.

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      Which will try to update all 3 apps that are available via winget. It will break one of them. It has 50% chance of bonking some drivers.

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          4315 packages

          It’s not nothing, and the effort is commendable. Def more than three. Dare I say it’s even more than five.
          Yet, in a grand scheme of things, it’s indistinguishable from three.

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            If NT is given as much time as the Linux kernel has had to mature then I’m sure they’ll have more packages built for it over the years.

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    KDE Plasma recommends applying updates at reboot like Windows for stability. In fact, that is how it does them by default

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    Aaaand… you’re on Debian, so Blender 4.0 just got added to the testing branch. (Blender 4.0 still haven’t been tested for 168 hours of continuous running without touching it)

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      It’s a good thing system packages (which should follow a conservative update approach if possible to guarantee system stability, unless hardware demands newer packages) and user applications (which you’d usually want to be most up-to-date) are increasingly isolated from each other and mostly able to follow their own schedules. Also improves security and such.

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      sorry, usage of this tool has been discontinued, please use [WORSE TOOL WITH DIFFERENT NAME]

      (joking but not really, gemini-cli is going to the google graveyard, replaced by antigravity-cli that’s basically the same, but in google’s tradition it launches with less features and also it’s not FOSS)

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    Every single time I’ve run upgrade on Debian, I’ve bricked my install. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong 😆

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      I’m probably a big newb, but on my headless Debian machines, major updates screw me up sometimes too.

      • “Ah! All my updates can’t be found on the server? Oh we’re done with “Bo-Peep” and moving to “PotatoHead” now? Maybe I should be on the newsletter or something…”
      • Change some sources in that one text file I gotta look up every time…
      • apt update && apt dist-upgrade “Oh, that’s a lot of errors…”

      I’m sure it’s not that bad and I’m being dramatic but I do kinda appreciate my rolling OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this reason lol. I feel like newbies would struggle with that major release upgrade process…

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          Haha Debian is really cool and I’m glad it’s there! Definitely rock solid! Don’t wanna throw any shade at their very important work. :)

          …I’m just too goofy to update it properly sometimes. 😅 Skill issue lol.

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            Ironically I had numerous discussions with people claiming updates often break rolling distros like Arch, and I’m in the same boat as you - only ever had issues with major upgrades on Debian