I used arch over 5 years in the past. Isn’t it common today checking the update news on the arch wiki before updating?
Why would you need to do that? Just use something stable.
Recovering Arch user here. I really like Bazzite!
Sure it is, but we are lazy you know.
Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.
Spoiler alert Snape kills Boromir
That’s Harry Potter
Gollum, Frodo, and Gandalf are in the Harry Potter films?
Frodo has been working out it seems
I feel like maybe it’s worth mentioning that NixOS doesn’t have this problem. Please don’t pillory me. Anyway.
“An update can wreck your bootloader with no notice, but hey, that’s part of the fun!”
A wrecked bootloader is not a problem, but a lesson to keep a usb drive to be able to chroot.
He jumped into Gentoo two days after with Arch
Timeshift has been huge for this
Atomic distro users: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!
There’s never a wrong time to update Arch Linux!
I think you mean there’s never a right time to update! You’re always rolling the dice!
So that’s why they’re called “rolling” releases!
/s
Roll d20
Nat 1
Your Arch install just wiped itself and all your personal data, hope you had backups
No wrong times, only small periods of unfortunate times!
Never had problems with that tbh, only with NVidia. Even on testing.
I had a problem with a Intel HD4000 on arch.
New arch user. Just switched to LTS on my gaming rig. Only took 6 months to learn my lesson.
It’s not the kernel but always mkinit in my case, on multiple machines. Even if i did never do nothing related. And booster/dracut and Efistub somehow never worked.
The moment you finally install arch and your realize you still feel empty inside.
Should’ve installed Intel.
The moment you install arch and you realise your computer feels empty inside.
The moment I finally installed Arch was then I felt “freedom” for the first time. No longer do I need to make compromises on my system and have things installed that I don’t need or want. It’s my system that I put together the way I like it. A bonus is that I know my system pretty well if something should break and I have the wiki to guide me
Can’t complain about Arch myself, but I prefer my software to not change. I’m back on Mint 22 with Plasma 5 and Wayland and I absolutely love it.
I tried arch once. Eventually, my computer just showed a black screen on booting. I managed to fix it by resetting my bios. That was the end of that attempt at using arch. Still want to try again, though.
I had this happen once or twice, caused by bad Nvidia drivers with Wayland.
I use AMD now for my day job, haven’t had a single issue in over two years. That’s not to say you should use it - it’s still a rolling release distro and will always have a potential to break over most other distros.
Vanilla Arch?
There’s several flavors of Arch?
I’m new to Linux and use Endeavor OS. Its Arch BTW so everything I do I just look up the Arch Wiki.
Endeavour comes with KDEPlasma, or you can pick others. It also has basic applications like Firefox and media players. But nothing in the way of office etc.
I think Manjaro is similar but deviates from arch a bit.
I’ve been using Mint for a year or two now, but if/when I “upgrade” so to speak to something with more control, I plan to get EOS. Arch is a bit much for me right now and openSUSE and Manjaro borked right away when I tried them (though to be fair, so did Mint-my hardware was too snazzy and I needed to update to the latest kernel to get everything working). But the control Arch offers is tempting, and EOS with KDE would suit me nicely. The best thing about Linux IMO is that you have choices about what you run; you don’t have to use any one distro, because no one can really force you to.
Btrfs my beloved. Things stop working? Just load a snapshot lol.
Just don’t try plugging it into a Raspberry Pi 5.
No data loss, but won’t work without changing your kernel. The other way around is much worse though — you can use an RPi5 to make a BTRFS drive which essentially only works on RPi5s.
EOS not once failed to update properly in over a year.
Been using EOS a lot longer and always flawless.
The only problem I have had is leaving a system too long and having to remember how to get the damn keyring to refresh. That is my biggest complaint.
I don’t have time for my system to be getting borked once a week. That’s why I use Debian. My system getting borked once every 2 years isn’t that bad.
I have been using Arch and EOS a lot longer with no borks.
Same. I started learning Linux on a rolling release distro and it was so frustrating having things Just Work one day and then be broken the next.
Was it Manjaro? Just asking…
I don’t have time for my system to be borked every 2 years. That’s why I use Arch.
