• sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    20 minutes ago

    I’ve made ~6 Arch systems at this point. None of them have randomly broken on me, none of them have broken after an update and to be honest have been solid. I have no idea where the narrative of Arch being able to destroy itself at any point came from, but I don’t think it’s true at all.

  • Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    1 hour ago

    Been using CachyOS as a daily driver for a year now, for dev work, office work and some media work. It’s helped to eek out some extra performance thanks to using build flags for system packages that are built according to modern CPUs.

    Would I recommend or for newcomers? Not really. But that’s because it still does require using the terminal for system management. But they’re also working on fixing that.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    I think Fedora is best of both worlds, if you want something closer to current Linux kernels/mesa for things like gaming, but don’t want to run a rolling release distro like Arch. Been running Fedora for about a year now and couldn’t be happier with the transition.

    That said, if you aren’t gaming and just want absolute stability, no matter what, Mint or Debian ARE the go-to solutions to use. They are the Toyota Hilux of distros.

  • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 hour ago

    I’ve been on Garuda for a few years (Arch based) and honestly, it’s been super easy. Once Pamac was installed to handle software and updates, learning about AUR and how to access it was the only remotely technical thing I had to learn.

    Yeah, some things are in different places than on Windows, but we all had to learn Windows at one point too.

  • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Ok so at first I thought it was actually kind of cute and endearing but by the end I think that guy is an asshole

  • faerbit@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I use Debian at work, and need to do 3-5x the amount of troubleshooting than I need to do on my private Arch box. And I’m not doing anything crazy on either. I would even argue my work use cases are less crazy. I also don’t think it’s about the release model. I think the biggest differentiator is that Arch focuses on KISS, and stuff just keeps working.

  • Jiral@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    That is why I use openSUSE Tumbleweed. Haven’t updated in half a year? No problem, just do zypper dup and let it do its job.

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    5 hours ago

    15 year old install, one issue with crashes because of a regression in nvidia drivers that was solved after a month, I just rolled back till then.

    Idk wtf you imagine people doing.

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      4 hours ago

      I imagine a lot of people have spiderwebs of dependancies and obscure abandoned projects that collect dust and eventually break everything. If you stick to maintained projects or learn anything about package management at all, youll likely have no issues ever.

      I just type “yay” into terminal every month or so when im bored

  • RiQuY@lemmy.zip
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I have been running rolling release with openSUSE Tumbleweed for +7 years, almost 0 issues when updating anything, I even had more troubles when I was running Ubuntu or PopOS.

    That post is just pure rage bait to get interactions/clicks and he succeded, now he appeared on Lemmy.

    I didn’t know that nixCraft was stupid, but now I will keep that in mind, so thank you for the heads up.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
    1·
    3 hours ago

    That’s exactly what it is. I think most of modern computing is just severe OCD and digital hoarding.