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. :)
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
pacmanbreaking 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. 😄Yeah I have grown a liking to flatpaks too but I dont think I can live with only flatpaks yet.
Distrobox is really nice, I even run some gui applications in containers.
This is the only thing keeping from arch tbh. I shudder to think of all the ways I can procrastinate on arch!