• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I have never had Arch break during an update. I’ve never had it crash. I’ve never encountered an issue I couldn’t resolve, and for that matter I don’t really encounter issues. Usually the only problems are that I haven’t installed a service that would usually come standard with another OS, so I have to check the wiki, install, and configure something.

    • FaeDrifter
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t had Arch break during an update, but I always check the home page first, there are absolutely times my system would have broken during a blind update.

      Arch doesn’t support blind updates - it explicitly tells you to always check the home page before an update in case “out-of-the-ordinary” user intervention is required. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance

      Basically, don’t run arch unless you’re willing to be a Linux system admin.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Similar, but a little more involved, to Debian testing or unstable. Install apt-listbugs and when you go to upgrade it’ll let you know what issues are floating around. You can choose to work around the issue, or wait a day or two for the wrinkles to be ironed out.

    • SomeBoyo@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Stable doesn’t mean that the OS doesn’t break, but that the way it functions doesn’t change.

    • quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
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      I see. I asked because “stable” means different things in different distros. In Debian it means that interfaces and functionality in one version doesn’t change. If I set up a script that interacts with the system in various ways, parsing output, using certain binaries in certain ways etc, I should be able to trust that it works the same year after year with upgrades within the same release. To some people this is important, to some people it isn’t.