I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

  • BaalInvokerA
    52·
    10 months ago

    Try run reflector

    run0 reflector -l 10 -f 5 >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

      • BaalInvokerA
        5·
        10 months ago

        I was waiting for this moment 😹😹😹

        But I actually am using run0

        • swab148@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          I have no actual problem with it, the only reason I don’t is that it’s harder to type

          • BaalInvokerA
            1·
            10 months ago

            That’s true… But once you get used to it, you don’t even notice that you write run0

    • dave@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Thanks—I am running the zen kernel because I didn’t really understand the question during archinstall, and have added an AUR helper but still no lack of joy.

      I’ll definitely give this a go—probably on Friday afternoon.

      • BaalInvokerA
        2·
        10 months ago

        I misunderstood your post. This command I told you is to make things better, not worse haha

        If you really wanna make your Arch unstable, you may wanna install every single package with pacman -Sy <packagename>

        Also maybe you wanna install everything from AUR

        • dave@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          lol! There’s such a mix of people being genuinely helpful and people telling me the joke is past its sell-by date. But I hadn’t come across reflector before and will definitely give it a go—thanks :)