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[–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Arch and Arch-based distributions (like Manjaro, EndeavourOS, Garuda ecc.) will teach you to do maintenance to your OS to keep it working: they're powered by bleeding edge packages and those for sure break way more often than other distros.
If you ever get tired of this thing, Debian is the exact opposite side of the spectrum: you have older software in your repositories but that's very well tested and it will hardly ever break. And if you ever need the latest applications, there's always Flathub.
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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Manjaro may lead you to believe that Arch distros bteak. It is not Arch, it is Manjaro.

    For me, Arch or EndevourOS have been very stable. Manjaro was / is a time-bomb.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yes, yes yes. As a person who's used EndeavorOS for at least 3 years, if it breaks, it's because I broke something, (like accidentally deleting my DE), not because my apps went to dependency hell.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    During the 3 years I spent on Endeavour it happened a couple times that new packages would break something: once with ALSA and once with PipeWire, so mainline packages and not something from the AUR. I managed to get things fixed but they've been both busy afternoons.
    Small inconveniences aside, I had a really great time with that distribution

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