From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love

Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by glitchcrab on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:56PM (#20796186)

I use Spotify for hours every day and I've had absolutely zero issues with it since I moved to Arch 3 or so years ago.

Agreed on the fonts, that has always been a pain. That being said, I recently installed Arch on a new laptop and the fonts weren't too bad out of the box - times change.

I update at least twice a week and I've only had one breakage in 3 years - I didn't update a config file with some new settings.

All in all, your response comes across a little FUDdy IMO.

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by mellett68 on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:34AM (#20799732)

My experience of Arch is that it's fun as a home computer tinkering exercise but I don't trust it for my work computer since I can't resist a version number bump and the amount of time spent faffing around would be a nightmare.

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by glitchcrab on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:50PM (#20803055)

I think it can definitely differ between individual systems - the fact that Arch is so flexible also means that each system can have individual little foibles. Personally speaking, I've used Arch for work for the 3 years mentioned previously with no problems. At my previous job I used to be oncall for a week at a time and I wouldn't upgrade during those periods just in case, but that was the extent of my caution.

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