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Each time the Arch update breaks, I'll eat a snack.
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genuinely what's up with all those arch update memes? arch user of 5 years with no reinstalls, it "broke" on me exactly once lately when Lua switched versions and borked AwesomeWM. the fix was looking at the output to understand the problem and running "pacman -S lua54" or whatever version. like, that's it
I've literally had more problems with Ubuntu and Rocky upgrades (tho as with most things Linux, its mostly user fault with custom repositories and all but that's a moot point because I use AUR on Arch too and that's been fine)
Arch is a do it yourself distro, which includes some maintenance - all of which is explained in the wiki during the installation process and mostly comes down to checking the news for required manual actions and looking through pacdiffs. if you skipped that part of required reading, arch might just not be for you and yea it's Gonna break
It's the same reason that all Windows users are music producing, Valorant pros who side hustle as Mechanical Engineers so obviously they can't just switch to Linux.
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I dont read unless something breaks. Then I read and learn more about my system then before. I've had 3 breakdowns. 2 of them were me fucking with things until they broke. All were fixable by looking it up and working on the terminal. Took 30 minutes tops each time. What I am diligent on is back ups.
which is fair enough and why I am on Debian (LMDE), all I really want to do is click an icon on the dock and use the program. Hell, I barely do that these days with apps starting using StartUp
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