The “Arch breaks all the time” people have obviously never used Arch.
I’ve run Arch as a daily driver for the last 4 and a half years and haven’t had any issues. I’ve tried Pop_OS twice in that time and had install-breaking issues within a week in both cases.
Only time I’ve ever broken my ~10 year arch box is when I don’t read the news feed
where is the news feed? I just had my arch laptop wiped out and it’d be nice to avoid it next time
Archlinux.org They will post if theres anything requires manual intervention
I used arch for 1.5 years and it did break a lot. Though I did use nvidia, so it was to be expected.
Switched to Nixos yesterday because it was kind of anxiety-inducing knowing my main computer was sitting on a time bomb that only got worse as time went on, as I toyed with the system more and more
Absolutely loved arch though, and I hope I’ll love nix as well
Literally switched off nix today because of a few mandatory (for me) packages were broken and I already regret it. Nix is such an awesome is and its impossible to break. Unlike Debian that fucked itself because rfkill wasint installed and that borked my networking on my PC. Couldn’t start my nic or anything and stayed up til 2 am trying to fix til I said fuck it and re-installed. Switching back to nix tomorrow!
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Same Arch has been my daily driver for 10 plus years.
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YMMV
I run Manjaro with KDE on X11.
I find the SYSTEM is extremely stable.
But the USER likes to tip the boat until it does a barrel roll, or sinks entirely.
So we have Snapshots, and we have rsync backups to a mounted drive… Then it matters not - a quick restart fixes most issues, and a reinstall takes only 6 minutes with no data lost -> in backups.
That’s stable enough for me.
Funny but my arch doesn’t break at all. I think users probably break it because they are learning, and that’s not really the fault of arch. :)
I’ve been using Arch for years and not once has an update “broke” my system. If it does break someone’s system it’s likely because they messed with their libs without knowing what they were doing
Stupid libs ruining everything
the subtle difference is that distros like Pop try hard to aim at home computer normie users or new to Linux, Arch doesn’t. 99% of Arch fault cases are also user’s fault.
Can confirm, I am a dumbass often.
For all the memes, Arch has not once broken on me.
You never update it? :)
#!/usr/bin/sh # break-my-system.sh pacman -Syyu
What the heck are you guys doing? I’ve been using Arch for over 5 years on many different computers and an update has never broken my system. I was even impressed that I was able to update my desktop with NVIDIA graphics after 6 months of it being unplugged.
Are you sure you installed the system correctly at all?
If you keep your Arch Linux system updated it shouldn’t break. I have been using Arch as my daily driver for close to a year now, and have been updating it at least weekly. The times that it did break for me (which is only 1-2 times), it didn’t break because of an update, but because of my stupidness.
This hits close to home.
I’ll take rolling updates over twice a year major release upgrades any day. My experience with Centos and Ubuntu was that anytime I needed to upgrade the OS, I had to spend a few hours fixing random stuff. Never had a problem with Arch that I couldn’t fix.
WELL ACKTCHUALLY…
But jokes aside: How do you people break your Arch system so often? I’m on Arch since 2012 or so and it never really broke for me. Also, anyone who can read will be able to fix the ~1 time a year required manual intervention.
Arch is DIY, so you’re supposed to know how to fix it.
I wonder the same. I can only guess but probably that they don’t update the whole system when installing new stuff.
Arch has only broken for me because I’m an idiot.
I’ve definitely seen stuff break because of an update to arch. there was an issue a while back where KDE plasma and xorg together would cause taskbar icons to be absolutely massive. a subsequent update fixed that.
the thing is, if my gaming PC is unusable, it’s not a big deal cause I don’t need it for anything. that’s why I run arch on it
Interesting. I’ve been running Arch/KDE for years and never saw that bug. I use Arch on almost everything.
Steam Deck comes with kinda-Arch, I use Arch for work now, I use it on my gaming PC. The only thing that doesn’t run it is my home server because it sits in a corner and doesn’t need bleeding edge updates or the AUR.
Coincidentally enough, Fedora has only broken for me because I am an idiot.
Usually when things I own or use break it’s because I’m an idiot lol.
I have yet to experience a breaking change in about 5 years with arch as my daily driver. The only “critical” thing that broke was the ms-teams flatpak app right before a meeting :D The reason was probably the shitty app itself and not arch though.
IDK, I’ve maybe had 2 system breaking incidents like this in 7+ years.
well, you don’t complain when your hammer does a shit job at driving a screw. (well, maybe you do, but thats on you)
One is consumer focused,
the other is bleeding edge.I love Arch, been using it for a few years now. So far the only update that really caused me some trouble was that whole Grub bootloader thing that happened a while ago.
FINALLY, LINUX MEMES IS HERE
Remember when Manjaro ddos’ed the package repo
Which time ?
Yes
