I'm not one of those Arch evangelicals, but this isn't true at all now.

Why should my pc be stable if I'm not stable

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I wonder how many Arch haters have actually used Arch and ever ran into a breaking issue.

In my 8 years of daily driving Arch, I have had 1 ever, and it was only bad bc I didn't know of BTRFS yet.

That happened 3 years in, and I went on a new distro-hopping spree in between, trying Fedora, NixOS, and others, and they had actual problems. Not "oh an update broke my system and was fixed in a day."

So now I've been back on Arch for more years.

This whole "Arch is always breaking and takes so much maintenance" is a myth. In reality, Arch is the most stable, because it packages everything Vanilla. Everything works the "standard" way. On Debian, things decay, and then some stuff that's new breaks with some stuff that's old. On Fedora, there is a Red-Hat tax: configs in weird places, strange scripts, software missing from main repos (COPR sucks btw). On Arch, it's just "normal" Linux; and that works

Ironically, it's the rolling release that's much more stable for me.

"Stable" distros often had a long and risky process of upgrading to the next major release.

Meanwhile, my Arch install has been pretty damn stable for over 10 years and went through several different PCs.

My machines got borked every time I tried to do a Debian or Fedora dist-upgrade following the official guide, like 4 times total. Rolling updates on Arch require manual intervention once in a blue moon and haven't broken my system since I got rid of Nvidia

I boot my arch laptop once in a blue moon and update it. Its not 2002 anymore.

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Sincerely, a Gentoo user.

OP never finished an Arch install

I use EndeavourOS for my primary gaming setup and will sometimes go a month or more before I remember to update again. Even with a relatively modern nVidia card, it seems to keep up just fine.

That being said, every vanilla Arch experience has been a disaster by the end and while it’s not the same situation as the meme, you very much have to have a ton of prior knowledge to get a system that actually feels personal and by the point it’s personal enough, getting support for your setup is nigh impossible because it’s so bespoke.

Has nix in their profile name and doesn't use NixOS 🤔 /s

Linux Mint user here, I have no idea if Arc is that complicated, I don't care really. All I need is a rock stable system where I can do things like developing, or just use it as "a computer".

I reboot every month or three, and feel extra happy after any interaction with m$ windows.

Life's good 😊

Arch really is the "Linux" of Linux users, complete with non users making shit up about it.

What about you? When did you choose stability over the rolling release?

This is such sloppy engagement baiting. If it was just a hot take shitting all over one of the larger linux communities, that would be one thing, but to follow it up with a "let me know in the comments" just makes it all feel disingenuous and like somebody is being sponsored by NordVPN or Incogni to post their ragebait

My arch system is so stable it's boring. Year after year, just runs. Doesn't slow down, doesn't install crapware.

So I dont know. I'm happy with it.

This is a bit like saying "Honda Civics are Tamagotchis for car people" because there's a community of people who enjoy modifying them. The rest of us just drive, and they run perfectly fine if you're not doing a lot of invasive customization.

Arch is great for tweaking and customization, but it's also fine for a simpler use case.

In the past 3 years of using arch daily I've had to remove some renamed packages after an update once, thats about it

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.

Anyone remembers Gentoo? ;)

I'm just chiming in to not announce which distro I'm using.

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I've done 'real work' on computer with arch my whole professional career. I need a working computer with reasonably up to date programs not 3 to 10 years out of date because debian maintainers can't be bothered. On servers it's another story and there i would prefer rhel any day i would use debian.

Never had a system breaking update. Idk what arch people be using.

I will preface this comment by saying I genuinely consider myself to be rather dumb, and slow to learn many things. With that being said, I've never had a single issue with the one arch based distro I have used (Cachy). I never had to really look up any docs, but to learn to install some specific programs. Overall it...just kinda worked? Only reason I switched to Fedora was for that extra peace of mind knowing its a bit more stable than rolling release, but still has more updated software than Debian based distros.

wtf is this bullshit

and more importantly, why is it so condescending?!

Fedora Immutable Desktop users when Arch and Debian users fight about whose system is more stable. (I use Fedora Kinoite btw)

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Arch really isn't that bad when you're not mucking around with the AUR. Debian is a little overkill for most normal users in respect to stability but it's good people have the freedom to do whatever the heck they want with their machines.

And then there's Fedora in the corner, quietly getting the best of both worlds.

ex arch user for 5 yrs

current fedora user since 2024

i've been getting a lot of "recommended" youtube videos on gentoo and nixos

send help plezz

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

CachyOS + Flathub (Bazaar) = not a single problem since I've started using it. But if I had to go to something more "stable", I think I'd go for Bazzite.

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.