OP is not updating his Arch system regularly.
his previous update must have been at least two hours old.
or months🤷
my post was a meme joke.
I’m a simple man, I see a negative Net Upgrade Size and I get horny.
I was going to ask why then again I thought to myself why not? And couldn’t find a good answer. You do your thing my horny internet friend. I’m sorry for interrupting, I’ll take my leave… ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
Download of 6GB is wild, is that re-downloading the entire package for each one that needs an update? Shouldn’t it be more efficient to download only the changes and patch the existing files?
At this point it seems like my desktop Linux install needs as much space and bandwidth than windows does.
Patching means rebuilding. And packagers don’t really publish diffs. So it’s use all your bandwidth instead!
Which is WAY more economical.
Rebuilding packages takes a lot of compute. Downloading mostly requires just flashing some very small lights very quickly.
If you have multiple computers, you can always set up a caching proxy so you only have to download the packages once.
Yeah, totally is. There’s a reason nobody publishes diffs
22.8 GiB install size !?
WTF?I must admit I don’t recall the size of my own installation, but that seems HUGE!
Anyways congratulations on getting it trimmed. 😋Larger than my entire root partition (currently at 21GB), but that’s because I made the fatal mistake to limit the partition to 25GB when I set it up. So I have to keep it trim, and I envy OP deep down.
Haha I did that once too, because I had a system that when upgrading I wanted a separate home partition so I could just reassign it to my new install.
If you’re doing anything with GPU compute (Blender, AI, simulations etc.), just ROCm, CUDA or oneAPI alone will take up half of that
On my system Blender is only ½ a gig with all dependencies…
You need to start installing more electron applications and a bunch of jvms too.
lol mine is like 76GB. have been running the same install for going on 9 years now
76 GB packages from you Linux distro? Did you simply install ALL packeages?
there are a lot of things that i only used once, or that are duplicate in case something breakes lol
I probably got something like that. I am not really into minimal installs, kde-applications-meta and plasma-meta is what I go with. Absolutely everything.
I just wish I could safely use KDE Discover for updates. That’s probably what would work with “apply updates on reboot”, which sounds like the safest option. But for some reason packagekit-qt6 which would (probably) make this possible is not recommended to use.
Preferably I’d go with something like KDE Neon or Kubuntu. I just really like KDE. But there’s just no sweet spot for me. Arch gives me new packages with all the bugs. Each update feels scary, what will I discover. Based on my Timeshift notes, last point without major bugs was 31st of October. Something like Linux Mint was stable, but I was missing some newer packages, and even drivers when my laptop was new. And major version upgrades also feel scary. Although, I don’t even know how they work. This is where Arch makes more sense to me. Linux as desktop OS is really just a huge bunch of packages working together, and they slowly get updated. When packaged into an entire OS, how do you even define a version?
I also use KDE, and it is far from minimal, but as I recall my system is only half that with a full system upgrade!
Some say creativity stuff takes much room, but for instance Blender is only ½ a gig.But maybe my system is bigger than I remember, because even at 40 gig it’s near irrelevant compared to the size of an SSD today, and with 1 gigabit internet the upgrades are fast anyway.
IDK if there’s a way to see the size of my actual Linux install not counting 3rd party media or games?
