Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)

Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by ChrisSD on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:22AM (#15246495)

This is both the great strength and great weakness of Arch. I did use it for awhile but in the end I got tired of playing sys admin on my home machine.

The nature of the system is that updates can absolutely bork the system at any time so you have to keep up to date with potential issues before doing updates. Many other distros do this work for you so you only have to worry every couple of years (or six months if you want).

Don't get me wrong, Arch is great if you're willing to keep up the effort but it does require more attention than more mainstream distros.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by rocqua on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:17AM (#15247636)

Arch takes real care not to let the system bork at any time due to an update. There is a very clear caveat to that. Check the arch news site before you do a system update. About 4 times a year, they make a potentially braking change, and inform users of this via that site.

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