Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)

Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by arc_of_descent on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:13AM (#15246450)

I used Arch Linux around 4 years back. I did a routine upgrade and it broke my system.

What is this rolling release fiasco? Even Ubuntu, which I use now has a "release" (technically an pt-get upgrade), almost every other day. But I've never had it break my system. If you keep your Ubuntu updated a dist-upgrade works just fine.

I might try Arch again, but for now I'm sticking to Ubuntu.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by zdkl on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:22AM (#15247200)

No judgement, I've been in the same place.

What you describe sounds like the consequence of installing a lot of packages. Arch "prefers" when you strip it down to what you need, if only because that way you don't need to worry about too many version mismatches.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by KozmoNau7 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:00AM (#15248051)

So if you actually try to use the system for more than a handful of things, it tends to break? That's not very reassuring.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by zdkl on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:49AM (#15249183)

You put it well in another thread with "it absolutely isn't [...] a good distro for people who just want to get on with life."

If you're looking for your computer to Just Work(tm) look elsewhere. However I stand by my comment about it being an outstanding learning tool for the curious & future sysadmins.

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