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Q&A Do I have to update Guix frequently like Arch?

Guix is a rolling release distro. Another well known rolling release distro is Arch Linux. In Arch, you are expected to frequently do system updates. Partial updates are not supported. In my exper...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A GUI apps stop working until next boot after some system upgrades

My system occasionally has an issue that looks like this: I run pacman -Syu Many things get updated Many GUI apps (including all display managers and Xorg) start refusing to run and throw up O...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Q&A After update, OpenGL does not work until reboot

Whenever I do a big system update, OpenGL stops working until the next reboot. This also prevent OpenGL apps from launching. Example: $ glxgears X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer par...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A What are phased updates, and why does Ubuntu use them?

So I ran into that weird "packages being held back" problem while updating my system using apt. After some research, it appears to be the result of "phased updates". What are phased updates, any...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by ArrayBolt3‭

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Q&A Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS)

Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS) When I run sudo apt update, apt flags libvkd3d1 and libvkd3d1:i386 as upgradable, but sudo apt upgrade does nothing and reports tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Darth_Muldoon‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭