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Re:Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck... by maxerickson on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:38PM (#28120537)
The last 2 or 3 years I've had 2 or 3 high friction updates on Arch.

More than 0, but not a lot.

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Re:Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck... by hendersoon on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:45PM (#28120634)
I've had maybe three or four high-friction upgrades on Ubuntu over the past 15 years, where it wouldn't boot properly until I fixed the problem. So yeah it's /better/, but it's far from flawless.

Note I don't stick to LTS releases. If I only upgraded to the X.1 LTS releases I expect it would have been smoother.

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Re:Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck... by chaostheory on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:48PM (#28124400)
I've had one in 10 years. The only reason was because I didn't stay with LTS releases.
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Re:Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck... by trey-jones on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:50PM (#28120717)
This aligns with my experience.
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