#Km91#Mar 1

Live Dangerously

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56122046

Show threadcygnusMar 1
I use Arch BTW full-time for work and personal for about 3 years now and haven’t had any issues at all.
Show threadFunkyCheese

I worked with someone who uses arch on his work laptop

One day it just died and he had to spend a day or two setting it all up again

I mean, its not common, but it happens

Mar 1 at 7:35pmWeb
Show threadAddv4Mar 1
Yeah, I ran arch through college, it broke 3 times over 4 years, basically each time because Nvidia updated. Now that I don’t have the time to fuss with spending a couple of hours chrooting in and fixing Nvidia stuff, I just swapped to endeavorOS sway community edition (and made sure none of my PCs have Nvidia anything in them) and haven’t had an issue yet.
Show threadpizza_the_huttMar 1
Yep, the only time things have broken in Arch for me has been with Nvidia driver updates.
Show threadAddv4Mar 1
Yep. Funnily enough, never really had any issues with the drivers on a desktop, only on mobile, mostly switching between integrated and discrete. But after messing with them on my laptop for a few years, you better bet my laptop was only running Intel integrated and my desktop runs on amd.
Show threadantsuMar 1
Skill issue.
Show threadSlurpingPusMar 2
I’d guess that keeping configs in Ansible would reduce that setup time to an hour or two.
Show threadflying_sheepMar 2
That doesn’t happen. When it breaks, it’s always recoverable, and it very very very rarely breaks (>10 years Arch user here, never lost sleep about it)
Show threadazertyfunMar 2

I’ve been dailying the exact same arch installation since 2014 without reinstalling it a single time.

Now to be fair I did have it non-bootable at several points. Worst of which was a PAM update which broke it completely because the new config was in a .pacnew file and the old one was not compatible anymore. But since it was a edge-case there was no forum post about it. Still recovered it just fine after an hour or so of troubleshooting.

It’s all open-source and usually decently documented. The only reason anyone should have to reinstall a Linux desktop is lack of experience, but I would always advise to persevere because troubleshooting my system is how I gained much of my expertise. If that’s not what you want, stick to Debian.