Pacrule - Syu

I'm ignorant here, what's the alternative, just su to root for admin?

paru

Well I use sudo-rs, and my CI does that for me :p

But tbh it's rare I run rebuild directly anymore. Most of my machines are set up for automatic rebuilds from my remote. Otherwise I use shell app shortcuts that cache the URI to disk so I only need to pass my flake remote or local folderpath once, then all subsequent cmds use it; nup to update the flake lock, nboot or nswitch, and hswitch for home-manager.

(most of my machines use HM nixos module but my main uses standalone for easier tweaking; switching between module and sa is a one-line host change in my config)

I also have ns and nr scripts for aliasing nix shell and run using the flake's lock. e.g. nr u.yt-dlp runs the yt-dlp program from the unstable nixpkgs my host is pinned to; s. for stable. If I need a specific revision then I fall back to the regular nix command.

Using shell apps as cross-shell shortcuts/commands has really changed how I use my terminal.

You're fine, thanks for explaining! Sometimes I feel like I'm the only transfemme who doesn't know computers... changing OS on my desktop or phone is scary even though it looks more and more like the smart move these days 😅

Not even distributions necessarily, just different package-managers that also have support for the AUR. (paru is in fact developed by one of the maintainers of pacman itself, which is one of the reasons for why I’m going with it)

But yeah, Arch requires regular system-updates, that you should kinda do daily, except at some point you get lazy and stop doing them…

hehehe, im nixos user already, so dont scared of updates :3

It was a rowdy crowd, I choose to take it in jest. Thanks for this advice, I appreciate it.

I suppose I should give the full story. I have checked them a few times, and two of which had their maintainers altered. Under the recent AUR attack, I believe that's been a requirement for malicious alterations to seep in, yet I don't entirely know what the malicious alterations look like in code. Three of the four packages ship default with CachyOS, with the stray one being added by myself. Conveniently enough, the one I added myself is the one I trust the most and actually feel confident enough in my auditing of.

As for removing unnecessary packages, yeah that's a fair point. Much as I like Cachy for being an easy-to-use Arch based distro, it does bring a handful of bloat with it. Suppose I've just been afraid I'd be removing a dependency.

Zorin is Ubuntu-based instead of Arch-based like Cachy, so regular updates can be run without reading update notices and it doesn't matter whether your last update was yesterday or 3 months ago (obviously bad for security reasons, but it's not going to break anything).

Just less hassle to set up and maintain. More focused on usability and usable for less experienced users. Basically a more modern and sleeker looking Linux Mint.