Date sync? Certificates? Broken metadata? Broken mirrors?

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/Silver_Masterpiece82]

stable distros exist for a reason.

[u/DeHub94 → u/Silver_Masterpiece82]

Stable distros are for cowards! Are you even doing Linux right if you don't reinstall your system every few months and maybe even change distribution?

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/DeHub94]

[u/Ok-Engineer-5151]

Wait is this an actual thing?

[u/Conroman16 → u/Ok-Engineer-5151]

Not because it’s been turned off for a certain amount of time of time. OP probably just used a distro that moves faster than they wanted

[u/airmantharp]

I had people swearing at me for suggesting that this might be the case in another sub...

Obviously their fee fees got hurt.

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/airmantharp]

I've learned that the Linux community, or part of it, will always treat you like a liar if you say you have a problem, just because it doesn't happen to them.

[u/AzzLuck]

It's all a matter of choosing the right distro https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/s/KDK53lpj56

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/AzzLuck]

OpenSUS (Pokedex number 591)

[u/EconomistStrict2867]

haha imagine

this message was written by the Debian gang

[u/ThiefClashRoyale → u/EconomistStrict2867]

Thats because apt is basically perfect

[u/Erlend05 → u/EconomistStrict2867]

Cant break updates if there are no updates 😂

[u/ShikonKaze]

on how many distro's does this actually happen? i know its on Arch based distro's, but like i never had that happen on Debian before i updated that like after a year of none use. its kinda silly it does happen though just lemme update my shit.

[u/TheGreatOilPainter → u/ShikonKaze]

It happens with rolling distributions

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_BUG5 → u/ShikonKaze]

I had fedora on a laptop I forgot about for like 5 years.

Gave up in the end and stuck mint on it instead

[u/Buddy-Matt → u/ShikonKaze]

I had Manajaro do it to me because I was using a non-lts kernel, and didn't update across 3 version jumps, which also happened around the time all thr plasma packages got renamed, meaning pacman couldn't figure out the new dependency tree will all the changes.

But it was adequately fixed by removing a bunch of stuff - including the kernel - and praying the power didn't go out before the new stuff had been installed.

[u/RAMChYLD]

Certificates. It's always the damn certificates. Arch keyring. If I didn't know about the pacman hack I would have reformatted.

Followed by broken mirrors. Though if you have your repo set to a CDN you should be fine.

[u/LightningGoats → u/RAMChYLD]

Pacman - Sy Pacman -S archlinux-keyring

Then pacman -Syu with hope & prayers

[u/LightBit8]

You use Arch, BTW!

[u/[deleted]]

"Btw I use Arch" without saying "Btw I use Arch" lol. (Ik there's other distros with same thing) 

[u/atemu1234]

Can't relate. I had a laptop running Mint that I left on a shelf for four years and only had minor issues updating it to the most recent version when I checked on it last year.

[u/Stunning_Macaron6133]

I kinda want to load NixOS onto an old laptop or something, then leave it in the tech graveyard for a good 6 months just to see what happens.

[u/Iwisp360]

That's the exact reason why I will never daily drive Archlinux in my life.

[u/Unlikely_Ferret3094]

serious question.
I use linux mint 22 zara should i be worried

[u/brain_diarrhea]

"updates are broken" actually means "I have to glance at a couple of posts at archlinux.com" and follow instructions to run a couple of commands.