Btrfs my beloved. Things stop working? Just load a snapshot lol.
After breaking on my notebook for the umpteenth time, i try now void. Have to fix some of my automation scripts tho.
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.
Vanilla Arch?
There’s several flavors of Arch?
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.
I used arch over 5 years in the past. Isn’t it common today checking the update news on the arch wiki before updating?
aaaand thats why i like “newbie” distros like ubuntu mint fedora and such.
i want my computer to work without a hitch and without having to maintain the OS.
It’s always been bad practice to just blindly update software. That’s why we have different distros.
Ubuntu and Mint hold your hand and make it easy for newcomers. Great way to dive into Linux. I completely agree these are great for “it just works” and no fuss. I’ve not had one break on me.
Arch and Gentoo expect you to have experience and know what you’re doing. You build it up how you want it. That’s what makes these so great. But you need the experience and knowledge.
I’ve personally tried openSUSE and in my opinion it feels like a good middle ground between both ends. In the past I’ve recommended Mint to get started, openSUSE once you’ve got experience, and then Arch for when you want total control.
And I like having my software up-to-date. It sucked ass when I was on Mint and one of my favorite programs had an update and I had to wait months for it to hit the repos.
this is why i switched from elementary. really good distro, but its based on ubuntu lts. think years instead of months. big oof.
I feel like maybe it’s worth mentioning that NixOS doesn’t have this problem. Please don’t pillory me. Anyway.
Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.
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.
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
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
No wrong times, only small periods of unfortunate times!
“An update can wreck your bootloader with no notice, but hey, that’s part of the fun!”
That’s what snapshots are for.
EOS not once failed to update properly in over a year.
