Very dumb question, but I'm kinda new to Linux. Do I have to manually update that or does it just do it when I update packages and the like? I'm on Arch btw.
It does it automatically.
But make sure to read the Arch news before every update, especially when it's a lot of packages. Something big like a new KDE Release might require minor manual intervention.I just update, never had an issue.
Just read the output of yay/pacman and you’ll be fine.
There's no way you're so new to Linux that you wouldn't know if that would update automatically yet you're running Arch btw. That's like saying, "Do I need to do oil changes on my car? I built my engine, btw."
all you have to do to "run" arch is type out some lines from a YouTube video and press enter. With all the people saying "Arch! Arch!" at every corner it's totally understandable that someone would try it and still be confused on basic stuff.
Arch stereotype is over with archinstall and direct step by step tutorial. You don't need to know how new release get updated to install arch
On linux, generally everything you install is through a centralized repository, you can think of it as an app store, arch is all entirely updated through pacman, pacman is just a command line way to interact with the app store.
In general, almost everything you install with pacman will update when you do
pacman -Syu(and restart, in case of kernel updates). The way packages work, all the files needed for a piece of software to function are installed from a package, and when you install a newer version, it removes all the files from the old version and puts in new ones. (Caveats apply to configuration files you can modify - those don't get replaced if you do)So after you update some software through pacman, it should be in an entirely clean state, just like if you just installed it. The main caveats apply to things like flatpak, which manage its own packages, and software like Steam and Discord, which have an additional auto-updater for some things that's storing files separately.
I am not sure if anyone answered your question in a way that you were expecting so let me try
yes you will get the update but you might not know it because your config wont change, so you have to go into the theme settings and use the "default" to see the pretty
With Arch
pacman -Syuwill do it for you. Generally you are encouraged to stick with the version in the repositories.You can install things from source by downloading the source code, building it (eg.
gcc code.corcargo build) and then copying the binary somewhere.Typically if you were going to install things from Source, you would write a pkgbuild for it and that would integrate it with
pacmanso you have a centralised manager of everything that you have installed to simplify updates and removal and conflicts etc.Doing this for small packages is pretty trivial and sometimes necessary. For a large package like KDE plasma It is a very large undertaking and you would never do it in practise.
The maintainers package the desktop environment with a pkgbuild, test it, And then upload it so that you can use it.
Also note that when the arch maintainers do package that software they compile it into a binary so you just have to download it. You don't also have to build it.
New to arch and new to Linux:
Install a yogurt, or yet another one!
You update and then the entire system breaks (because Arch)
It's called Plasma. Plaaaaaassssmmmaaaaaaaaa.
sudo apt install cool-package
438 dependencies will need to download 1.4 gb ^C ^C ^C ^C ^CYeah that drives me nuts, it's like I'm installing a flatpak
I don't even need to install any new packages to get that
sudo zypper dup992 packages to upgrade, 2 to downgrade, 18 new, 3 to remove.
Package download size: 1.81 GiB
Half the packages are LibQT6something or LibKF6 something lol
Me who uses GNOME on Debian stable
I've tried really hard to like GNOME, but god damn we don't get along. Debian 12 is solid AF though.
I have tried both kde and gnome many times and i can't stand either one. I'm forever stuck in cinnamon.
somehow every distro that ships with kde has tons of big bugs that I can't figure out (probably related to my setup), and gnome feels like a tablet UI. cinnamon won't autosuspend but it's the smallest headache of these...
Gnome on Debian is fairly out of date. I personally like all the new features.
However, I think it would be cool if you could run Fedora with gnome in Podman. Solid base with containers for newer stuff.
Where I live, we live life one KDE update at a time.
In mother Russia, KDE lives you!
(I have no idea where you live. This is a joke)
In Russia, mainly people patch KDE2 under FreeBSD.
lol
I run krohnkite and klassy, but damn is it a fine default.
Amateurs. Mate > KDE.
I was running MATE door years before switching to Windows 8.1 and shortly after first public beta of Windows 10 when it was available. I was even helping translating it to Polish for like a month or two, but given that I was probably like B1 (about B2 right now) in English at that time it was probably not ideal, lol.
Mate is really nice, I was always a fan. (Although XFCE is nice too). However, I dont believe it has support for Wayland yet?
I think LXDE has Wayland now but I haven't tried it.
What do you use Wayland for? Gaming?
kde is bloated. lagging with 8gb ram
Feel free to download this badass ram
yOu WouLdNT doWnLoAd A cAR
I am now running Linux on that truck, it is even slower now please help
What dinosaurs of a computer are you using?
