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I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it's my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won't announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that's not enough.

I've been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I've decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

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[-] seralth@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

In the last three years there's been a single time I can recall pacman telling me I needed to do a thing.

I copy pasted that warning into google it took me right to the news post. I threw in the commands that the news post said I needed to do.

Nothing broke. So this isn't like it's a weekly problem.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago
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