Fear of using a rolling release
by ychaouche from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4T2TE)
The two rolling release distros that I tried are
- sabayon
- manjaro
What I dislike about them is :
1/ The sheer amount of bandwith when the system needs to be updated (up to 1Gb / month)
2/ Any update has the potential to break your system, either by making it unusable (black screen, no more wifi...) or by making package installs impossible (the package manager breaks and I don't know how to fix it.)
I would like to have some feedback on how do you guys perform updates : does it break often ? doesn't break at all ? do you take some precautions before doing an upgrade ? is there a failsafe way to do them ? can you bring the system back to a previous state (snapshots ?) even if you're not using virtualisation ?
Any feedback/story welcome !
- sabayon
- manjaro
What I dislike about them is :
1/ The sheer amount of bandwith when the system needs to be updated (up to 1Gb / month)
2/ Any update has the potential to break your system, either by making it unusable (black screen, no more wifi...) or by making package installs impossible (the package manager breaks and I don't know how to fix it.)
I would like to have some feedback on how do you guys perform updates : does it break often ? doesn't break at all ? do you take some precautions before doing an upgrade ? is there a failsafe way to do them ? can you bring the system back to a previous state (snapshots ?) even if you're not using virtualisation ?
Any feedback/story welcome !