Hi.
I have just joined the Forum, but I am trying the distro since last week.
It so happened I was looking to get my main PC back to Linux after a few years of Windows for professional reasons, and I saw all of these news about relentless wokeness…
So I searched for a non-woke distro and here we are! Thanks Lunduke.
Everything is going smoothly and I am pretty happy with how it is performing, although I will ask some techincal stuff later on as I have some input needs that are not immediately met.
It is also my first rolling distro! So I hope it won’t break
ROME rolls but not nearly as fast as Arch. We will have a big update tomorrow or the next day as the devs sync Cooker and ROME. There will be a post to warn everyone not to update and another post to give the all clear.
ROME does receive updates, but it’s not an everyday occurrence. Updates are not as frequent as openSUSE Tumbleweed, if you’re familiar with that distro.
Again, welcome to OpenMandriva. We’re just a bunch of normal nerds here.
I’ve been meaning to learn more about the use of the command line and while this has always been pretty straight forward with Ubuntu distributions, I’m not so sure how to proceed with “regular maintenance” in OM Lx.
Am I supposed to check for updates everyday, and what is the command(s) to do so? From what I could find over here it looks like it’s: sudo dnf clean all; dnf repolist; dnf distro-sync --allowerasing? But I’m not sure if it’s safe to run daily or is this just for bigger updates.
Regarding updates, yes the commands on the wiki page How to update system [link is also pinned in the Big Fat Warning here on the forums] are all you should need to keep your system updated.
For ROME those are:
$ sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist
$ sudo dnf distro-sync --allowerasing
Keep in mind that ; means to run the following command sequentially as if each is on a separate line regardless of the outcome of the predecessor so even if the former fails on exit the next will still be called, and so on.
In the sudo dnf clean all ; dnf clean all ; dnf repolist line above, the first dnf clean all is ran as sudo, the second is ran as the user, it is not a typo/duplication.
As for frequency, personally I’d say every day is overkill but once a week is sensible enough, at the end of the day it is your system to do with what you wish.
I’ll keep that in mind. I also didn’t update every day anyway and found it to be a bit over the top, but I read and watched some videos online that said that the point of rolling release is to be as updated as possible… glad I can comfortably choose when to do so.
You don’t have to update every day. We don’t push updates every day anyway. Maybe once a week or so. Our updates get tested a bit more than something like Arch or Tumbleweed. You will find OMLx to be a lot more solid.
Thanks. I was also wondering about the double dnf command, as I wasn’t sure sudo was inherited or not. That is good to know.
I just thought I would add the mandatory my first distro was Mandrake for maybe 2 weeks or a month, before going to Ubuntu and staying there for ages.
All thanks to my brother who brought the install disks from college when I was maybe… 11?
It is nice to see it has somehow survived to an extent, and that it is now much more usable than before. Although Mandrake is a billion times a better name than “Mandriva”, but hey…
It made me wonder if Daper Drake was named as such on purpose as to make it seem similar to Mandrake.
You know one thing I wish the rolling distros had was a delay feature. So anything new I want to wait a week after others have tested it before it is installed on my computer.
I used to have a Manjaro install till it broke itself after updates =/. Went to Linux Mint because it has never broke itself since I have used it. The delay in installing updates is actually a feature.
OMLx updates when you decide to do it. We are about to see the update for KDE Plasma 6.3, but you don’t have to apply that update until you get ready to run it. This is exactly what you and I want.
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for maybe 2 weeks or a month, before going to Ubuntu and staying there for ages.