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. :)

  • notanapple@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • paequ2OPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      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. 😄

      • notanapple@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        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.

        Yeah I have grown a liking to flatpaks too but I dont think I can live with only flatpaks yet.

        The other thing I’m borrowing is distrobox+podman. I didn’t know about that before. This seems useful for dev environments.

        Distrobox is really nice, I even run some gui applications in containers.

        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. 😄

        This is the only thing keeping from arch tbh. I shudder to think of all the ways I can procrastinate on arch!