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Upgrade Arch, on a whim. (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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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)

As someone who uses Debian everywhere - it's just the opposite end of the spectrum from Arch for (non security) updates. Getting any OS into a bad state is trivial if your not paying attention. I still don't understand why they make a rolling release version.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Oh yeah, all my installs are Debian or Debian-derivatives and they're all rock solid as long as you keep to stable/LTS releases.

    Debian rolling release versions seem to be for Debian development, not really intended for end users (which is probably why it's called "testing"). Maybe the communication around that needs to be clearer, though Debian can't really do much about all the people who aren't Debian members/maintainers who claim that running testing/sid is fine.

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