System crashed during a pacman update. I am completely super fucked

Should just have installed Ubuntu

Why do Linux people do this shit to themselves? What is wrong with you? Why are you intent on using this trash?

>MOM CANCEL MY MEETINGS, windows deleted all my documents again

How DO you actually do this on Linux?
I've known how to do this for Windows very easily and done it many times since the early 2000s, but it's never something that actually came up for Linux so I never looked in to it.
I assume it is as simple as copying over the data like Windows.

>waaah I'm too stupid to disable Windows updates!
>I'll switch to Linux, Microsoft will regret this!
>OP's pic happens
Lel

unironicall install gentoo

The post is probably a bait.
But, in case it wasn't, you can boot into previous kernels in advanced boot options. Arch always has the old kernels for backup. Same on many other distros.

Arch is one of the few distros that doesn't keep backup kernels.

Nigger are you smoking crack?
I have been using windows since the 1990s and have run into a BSD only once, and I’m not entirely convinced that it wasn’t my fault. There’s a reason 99.9% of real companies that conduct real business (ie NOT posting on Faceberg with a MacBook) use Windows systems.

not our problem.

>Arch is one of the few distros that doesn't keep backup kernels.
what is their reason for that?

>what is their reason for that?
Pure retardation, it's Arch after all.
t.Arch user

the only way to arch is to automate reinstall and periodically wipe and refresh

you just need to generate a new initramfs. this is one command to fix. why is every arch user helpless?

>Pure retardation, it's Arch after all.
ah. that was my first guess but i thought that might have been a bit too obvious.

nice monitor, i have the same one.

You can run programs from any disk partition or directory as if it were your primary drive, through chroot (change root). As long as your system contains a working package manager you can chroot into it and reinstall what broke. You can establish an internet connection from outside the chroot as necessary. If your package manager broke you need to reinstall it from outside the chroot, though how to do this depends on the distro and can range from unpacking an archive over your system to using a working copy of the package manager from the live USB to reinstall itself (and whatever else) in your system's partition.
Like the other user said, install gentoo, it's easier to grok when you see it in action. If you know how to install you'll also know how to reinstall when it breaks.

> why
op is probably a newfag in the world of linux. he'll learn, and get more jaded and bitter until the point where he'll fit in here just fine.

Because they feel it isn't necessary.

read the handbook speciffically the parts about
booting installation media
mounting the filesystems
chrooting
(and here is the point your fix what went wrong and reboot)
repeat if necessary

actually it does all packages ever downloaded stay in the cache untill you actively delete them with something like paccache

This happened to me
Something about /boot not being mounted when kernel was updated
Try to boot with install, mount all drives (including boot) and pacman -S linux
If not, at least look up the issue of not having boot mounted when updating the kernel you should find something

>not our problem.
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wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Cleaning_the_package_cache
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/
"However, it is necessary to deliberately clean up the cache periodically to prevent the directory to grow indefinitely in size. "
post your du -h /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
if this is the first time youve ever heard about this

>Because they feel it isn't necessary.
I think many things in this world are unnecessary but backups of kernels are useful to have.
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seethe archtoddler, either install gentoo or use windows like a normal person who likes stable systems should

dude...that cracked me lmao