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
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    13 days ago

    Try run reflector

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

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        13 days ago

        I was waiting for this moment 😹😹😹

        But I actually am using run0

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          13 days ago

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

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            13 days ago

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

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      13 days 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.

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        13 days 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

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          13 days 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 :)

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            13 days ago

            Please don’t run arbitrary commands just because someone on the Internet told you to use them.

            The arch wiki will tell you all you need to know and more.