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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.

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

Fedora here...I tried arch once...not for me.

May I introduce you guys to Debian Sid? It's the worst of both worlds, I used it as a daily driver for several years. That said, I switched over to Debian stable once the old laptop was downgraded to purely a web browser.

I just use a phone. I don't know whst you retards are talking about.

Early on in Linux journey rolling distros are great.

I started my Linux journey with a rolling distro and I'm thankful for that. It broke every other day I spend hours upon hours on stackoverflow and other forums trying to find solutions and to fix it. That led to understanding linux in general to a greater depth. I'm now on a stable distro because I've a job now but I was only able to land that job because I knew Linux well enough. I know even after 10+ years I'm nowhere near the level others are at but it's about the journey and not the destination. I've grown along the way.

I did not expect a Linux outlet to post such an ignorant and outdated take. Disappointed 👎

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.

Hilariously outdated take.

I update my systems like once a month maybe

OP never finished an Arch install

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.

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.

I will roll into my grave

Arch teaches you to exercise muscles that would otherwise atrophy. Understanding how your system is put together, how to diagnose and fix problems, how to handle upgrades safely. It becomes just as easy as any other OS and you're better off for it.

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

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.

I love my EndeavourOS. 💜

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.

Debian <3

The drastically recontextualizes all of the "I use Arch BTW" memes. 😂

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.

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.