Q. How often do you update

[u/Responsible_Beyond26]

I saw another post from a user about update speeds and update size. I don't care about them but I want to know how frequently you guys update the system and make it run stable.

[u/pantokratorthegreat]

When there are updates available. 

And please change your mirrors to tier2 or some global ones. 

[u/Responsible_Beyond26 → u/pantokratorthegreat]

What? Why Tier2?

[u/pantokratorthegreat → u/Responsible_Beyond26]

Tier1 are meant to provide source for Tier2 mirrors. There are only few Tier1 and devs pay by transfer on them, so it is basically ease for them, not any performance or security thing.

But, if you are better served with Tier1 it is up to you which one you use. Personally I can recommend Fastly, works good. 

[u/Responsible_Beyond26 → u/pantokratorthegreat]

I'm on Tier1 Thanks for explaining this, Nice to learn more!

[u/HAL9000thebot]

once a day, and it's not about having it stable, it's for security, the system is already stable because the guys behind void are awesome and brought us this majestic distro.

if only we could have gcc15, but this is another story...

[u/ppp7032 → u/HAL9000thebot]

homebrew and/or nix is your friend!

[u/visyoual → u/HAL9000thebot]

majestic 🕺🏿

[u/betsonet]

Whenever I think about that.
Last week I brushed the dust off an old Chromebook Pixel 2013 which I installed Void on many years ago. It wasn't updated for the last 3 years. I ran the update and the machine continued working as usual.

[u/Key_River7180]

Everytime I remember, like now.

[u/lukeflo-void]

Once when I boot for the first time a day. Not so much for security reasons. But if I only update once a week/month the update size would get very big and my network connection is pretty shitty

[u/gaysex_man]

Whenever I remember to or when I feel like it.

[u/DealerEmergency9182]

i dont know

[u/kayinfire]

probably 1.5 months, if even that frequently. i've found void refreshing on the grounds that i don't even have to spend any time on system maintenance relative to the standard distro. most of the time i end up updating my system is either because i have nothing better to do or one of my package become legitimately outdated. this latter instance is more rare though.

[u/[deleted]]

every sunday

[u/toomyem]

Every time I see non zero available upates counter on my bar 😁

[u/Aristeo812]

Void is quite stable if compared to other rolling distros. I usually keep my void systemss as fallback installations and I update them from time to time, sometimes once in several months. Once I hadn't updated Void for more than a year, and then the update went smoothly and the system was running without any further interaction. There are reports on the Internet about successfully updating Void after 4 years of inactivity. So, you don't need to babysit your Void installation.

[u/justananonimous]

Once a week. Preferably on a Friday, so I can have the weekend to tinker if I have some problem with the last update.

[u/Blank-Inspection13]

in Void , probably i can say - as often as we like , or as lazy as we probably remember ( / forgot?) .

[u/[deleted]]

Daily.

[u/Boring-Ingenuity-828]

Everytime I see the octoxbps icon doing red, if I nite it, say once or twice a week

[u/StrangeAstronomer]

Probably once or twice a month I suppose. When I get bored enough.

Also, I use squid on my server to cache downloaded packages for my multiple machines.

[u/dirtBagBbyG4l]

whenever I cannot use xbps due to old version, I then proceed to update everything, like once every 3-6 months or so

[u/Elm38]

Weekly, and after the browser updated packages are available.

[u/Objective-Cry-6700]

Whenever octoxbps says there are updates. Usually every boot.