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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by tgummerer on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:10AM (#15247572)
> It just works and during all these years my system was never left broken after an update

I find that very hard to believe. While I am still running Arch (gotta love those shiny new features), updates did break something minor fairly frequently due to occasionally incompatible updates, e.g. a missing symbol in a shared object.

Luckily there was only one time where something major broke which took me a few hours to fix.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by keenerd on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:34AM (#15248396)
> updates did break something minor fairly frequently due to occasionally incompatible updates, e.g. a missing symbol in a shared object.

That should never happen with official packages and full updates. I've seen it happen maybe twice in 10 years and it was fixed within an hour.

If you shoot your foot off by performing a partial update (pacman -Sy foo bar baz) or forget to rebuild your AUR packages, then it might happen. But that is on you, not the distro.

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