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Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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Sometimes. Some of us out there have use cases where we really, really don't want our systems making choices for us and would rather read the notes every time. One could equally well argue that an OS whose entire purpose is letting the user make the choice suddenly doing something automatically without asking for input is the break in state that users would find astonishing.
I'd say you want Linux from Scratch then, but even then the Linux kernel maintainers are making choices for you.
But Linus is very firm in that they never break userspace, so you should never see an issue like this when updating the kernel.
Not necessarily
Had a kernel update which couldn't read a specific HDD controller chip. Since then I always install LTS version along with regular just for booting up if the kernel upgrade fails.