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Should I give Arch a shot?
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Arch is bound to break every once in a while, that's just the deal you get with a rolling release distro. If stability is all you want, you can go with the BTRFS snapshots and hope to heavens this setup doesn't break or use something stable like Debian or Fedora.
Disagree. Arch is not stable at all, couldn't be even if you wanted it to be.
Bugs and regressions get introduced upstream all the time, these have a tendency to slip from testing into the main repos.
Case in point, a recent glib2 update was causing NetworkManager to coredump sporadically.
And you have to always use downgrade. Example, the newer 6.5 kernels break thermald 2.5.4 for me, so I have to downgrade a step downwards.
Are these problems because of Arch? Not necessarily but the rolling release model has a role to play in these types of regressions & bugs.
An LTS type of distro will face other different types of bugs. Outdated software libraries/dependencies that are rendered incompatible etc.
But these are few and far between compared to rolling release where everything is in a constant state of change.
Everything is bound to break every once in a while, that's just the deal with software that updates