Made this on a whim, while commenting on that other recent Arch related post... the tamagochi one.
It's been years since I actually used Arch. I hear much has changed (~ like it has an easy installer now?). Does it still itch to faceplant from time to time, needing rescue or abandon? Does Arch still faceplant itself?
How long have you managed to keep an arch going? How many times needing rescued back to being bootable in that duration?
[And would have posted this from that account, but that lemmy.wtf instance is tempramental, currently 504ing again. Glad I recently made this alt account so I can still post this and carry on with life.]
Hrmm... that gets me pondering about cron'ing up a cascade of strata fetching (and whatever configuration copying required if any), such that there'd always be fallback... then, conceivably, could have "auto-updates and no problems ever", and not even need worry about having adequate detection of problems to know when safe to proceed, as it would all just work, with something that just works still present, as bedrock strata. ... May seem a mite heavy handed, and very wasteful for hd space though. ... And no guarantees all that complexity on the back end (to confer simplicity on the front end) will stay "just work"ing, and not need problems mended. [edit... oh, and almost seems inevitable that some mirror layout change would break fetches too... so I guess it's not so near to full proof.]
To my best knowledge, it has been solved with filesystems-with-backup (like btrfs) and/or immutable distributions, but I never bothered to use them