What’s wrong with wanting a community supported distro?
Not sure why the hate on arch.
I use NixOS, FWIW
Is “it works” the average experience of an Arch user?
At the start yes. But it deteriorates with time. I can’t even update because of dependency conflicts and whatnot. My system is held together by ductape and a piece of bubble gum
Did you miss a required manual intervention on an update? A while ago there was an arch update that needed manual intervention cause of a dependency circle. Might be worth looking up the past year or so of manual intervention newsletter posts for Arch.
Last time I had a dependacy issue I was able to remove the conflicting package, update, then reinstall the package and it worked fine afterwards.
My own system was working great for a long while on an Arch flavour. But a bit ago HDR stopped working properly after an update and I just couldn’t get it running right. Would display very dim.
Eventually gave up on my 2 year old install and went back to Tumbleweed.
I loved all the tinkering on Arch, but I just don’t have it in me to do the tinkering anymore.
Since i use Arch everything actually worked. Scary.
Yep. That’s why I stopped distro hopping years ago.
Once set-up it just works™.
I say it’s rather a „it mostly works” experience, but as a twist, if anything goes wrong, you can fix it very easily
In frustration I switched from fedora to manjaro on my laptop and it has fixed almost all the issues I had even though fedora is the recommended distro by Framework. Dunno why but in all my time using Linux (even back to when netbooks were a thing) Arch based ones have consistently given me the least issues even though I’m far from an expert.
