A couple of people (self professed noobs?) in this thread said they just ignored the 2 pacnew file warnings (and did nothing) and everything was (seemed?) OK. If you’ve never manually made any changes to your files, can that be done? I’m on XFCE, terrified of getting locked out of my system (work cannot stop).
I never actually log out, the only time I have to use my password is when the darn laptop lid closes by mistake and does not follow my choice in the settings: “do nothing”. Instead it requires me to use my password.
There is action implied in the pacnew files warning that I don’t have my head around. I don’t have a backup system in place because I have too many files on my desktop, seems unmanageable to backup everything. What I’ve been doing is update 2 other adjunct XFCE systems first and if those go ok then update my main machine.