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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    sudo pacman -Syu is equivalent to sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, you'd want to run it about once a day to ensure you have all current updates. Pamac should allow you to update everything from a GUI, so you don't have to worry about that.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Cool that's what I thought, just confused by the people saying they've bricked their systems by doing it!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Packages get updated a lot in arch. Occasionally a package may push an update with a big that can cause major problems. Often times those bugs are fixed relatively quickly, but if you update too often, you are more likely to update to a package with such bugs.