Knew that was coming, at some point… I wonder if anyone grabbed copies of the git repos.

This is more or less what I was trying to say:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/xismin/can_rolling_release_distros_be_updated_after_a/ip4t3yf/

You miss enough updates on a specific package, it may break without a proper tested upgrade path from version 1.5 from 6 months ago and version 1.76 from yesterday.

Rolling release packages tend to break as they get further and further out of sync with what’s the latest, if you haven’t updated packages in a certain period of time, I don’t know what that time period is, since I’ve never run rolling release, but my point stands. I like that I can leave a laptop sit for a while, pick it up and not break the next time I run updates.

Edit…

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/xismin/can_rolling_release_distros_be_updated_after_a/ip4t3yf/

That’s what’s always stopped me from running a rolling release distro like Arch: the unpredictability of life. I go on vacation for 2 weeks, don’t use my computer in that time and when I get back, I’m going to want my computer to work after an update, simple as that.

Openwrt is life.

Oldie but a goodie, thought I had read this before. oh right, back in 2016! Time flies.

And how many beers? Lol pretty easy to mess up dd if and of flags, as well and drive names and partition numbers, especially while drinking.

I know you mentioned you have access to touch screens, so you wanted to use an on screen keyboard to do this, but just an FYI:

If it would suite you better for this, or you get caught in a bind, you can use KDE connect to use your phone as a keyboard/mouse on a remote computer on the same network. Its not a great solution to use for normal computer usage, but as you said if you only have to do this once in a while to rename a file or do something simple infrequently, it could be an option.

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