I’m trying it out for the first time and reading the handbook here: https://docs.vanillaos.org/handbook/en/updates
However, I noticed the page says:
This guide is for Kinetic (22.10), not Orchid.
And when I tried running command to check for updates, I got this.
$ vso update-check
Error: unknown command "update-check" for "vso"
Run 'vso --help' for usage.
ERROR unknown command "update-check" for "vso"
I could wait for the normal update job to run, but I’m being impatient. :)
I had the same suspicion that it probably doesn’t work well for seasoned linux users but its nice to see its otherwise fine. I have used ublue in the past and my experience was similar.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer.
One thing I’m doing differently in Arch this time is I’m trying out installing as many things as possible as flatpaks. I’ve successfully ignored them until now. Surprisingly, a lot of my apps are already packaged as flatpaks.
The other thing I’m borrowing is
distrobox
+podman
. I didn’t know about that before. This seems useful for dev environments.flatpaks + distrobox seem to be at least 50% of VanillaOS. So I’m borrowing those and then I get to keep the simple, mutable OS with Arch.
That being said, I’ve never had a problem with
pacman
breaking my system, so I don’t see major value in doing this… other than… it’s helping me procrastinate! I should be doing real work right now. 😄