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  • You can update the whole base image. Vanilla OS and SteamOS have an A/B partition that holds the currently-in-use image and can also hold a to-be-used image.

    Updating works by adding the to-be-used image, setting a configuration option that tells the system to boot that one, and on the next boot it’ll check if the new one is bootable, then either boot it and mark it as working, or boot into the old one and display an error about how out wasn’t able to boot into the new one.

    There’s smart things going on like maybe hard linking files that didn’t change between the two images and therefore saving space and copying time.

    The result is that you never have a broken system, but you can still frequently update the base image.





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    4 months ago

    Laptop tries to reboot for 5th update of the day

    I can’t connect to the internet, Dave, I’m afraid I cannot allow you to start me up again

    You try to ignore helpful tips from the guy next to you, pretending your headphones are still active.

    You choke back tears as Windows had enough from your feeble attempts to boot and the power button stops doing anything.