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Upgrade Arch, on a whim. (lemmy.today)
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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.]

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I have been using Arch Linux on my Desktop PC at home since somewhere in the last quarter of 2020. I didn't have to rescue-boot or anything like that in all those years. I did reinstall Arch once because I got a new PC.

I do have an all AMD setup, as I heard NVIDIA isn't all too nice to linux in general and the drivers were a hassle to get right, never tried it though.

Maybe it depends on what you're doing on your PC. I'm mostly gaming, surfing the web, youtube and a little docker on the side.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I have NVIDIA and I've had no issues with arch. There were the Wayland issues with how NVIDIA syncced frames and that being an issue but that's not distro specific and arch had a fix faster than others via AUR sooo.... 0 distro related issues in the 3 years already of using it.

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