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I don't think "never breaks" is an appropriate description of Arch. At the very least, you should read the mailing list to know what updates to beware of becaus

I don't think "never breaks" is an appropriate description of Arch. At the very least, you should read the mailing list to know what updates to beware of because they might break in a big way.

coldpie 11y ago
Well, yeah. Subscribing to arch-announce and following the instructions is a required part of maintenance.
cookiecaper 11y ago
Yes. Arch is often "broken" intentionally, like when they switched to Py3 as the default about 1.5 years after its release. If you're not paying attention and you're not competent to recognize what's going on when your Python-based applications stop working, Arch is going to look "broken". I think this is a good test case for whether someone is suited for Arch or not; would you know what to do if you started getting weird errors that executed /usr/bin/python expecting python2 and got python3 instead? No? Maybe Arch isn't for you [yet]. Despite that, I find Arch is the least disruptive distro to daily work because it doesn't meddle. Canonical is full of people who think they are Steve Jobs and decide they're going to overhaul System Y with some super-special never-before-seen invented-here components this release because it's the visionary way to do things (and that other competing revitalization effort that's seeing widespread adoption, well, it's not). The result is 2-3 Ubuntu releases that are bug-ridden and really not production ready until the new system can stabilize. It seems as soon as one major userspace component begins to mature they decide to rip out another core component (Gnome->Unity; X->Mir). Source: Arch and Ubuntu user for the last 10+ years
- hiram112 11y ago
  How are Arch fonts? I use CentOS on a VM. I dislike Ubuntu, but it's the only distribution that has good fonts.
  - lorenzhs 11y ago
    The infinality patches make fonts look awesome on any distro, can be a bit of a pain to get working properly but I find it worth it.

I don't think "never breaks" is an appropriate description of Arch. At the very least, you should read the mailing list to know what updates to beware of because they might break in a big way.

coldpie 11y ago

Well, yeah. Subscribing to arch-announce and following the instructions is a required part of maintenance.

cookiecaper 11y ago

Yes. Arch is often "broken" intentionally, like when they switched to Py3 as the default about 1.5 years after its release. If you're not paying attention and you're not competent to recognize what's going on when your Python-based applications stop working, Arch is going to look "broken". I think this is a good test case for whether someone is suited for Arch or not; would you know what to do if you started getting weird errors that executed /usr/bin/python expecting python2 and got python3 instead? No? Maybe Arch isn't for you [yet]. Despite that, I find Arch is the least disruptive distro to daily work because it doesn't meddle. Canonical is full of people who think they are Steve Jobs and decide they're going to overhaul System Y with some super-special never-before-seen invented-here components this release because it's the visionary way to do things (and that other competing revitalization effort that's seeing widespread adoption, well, it's not). The result is 2-3 Ubuntu releases that are bug-ridden and really not production ready until the new system can stabilize. It seems as soon as one major userspace component begins to mature they decide to rip out another core component (Gnome->Unity; X->Mir). Source: Arch and Ubuntu user for the last 10+ years

hiram112 11y ago
How are Arch fonts? I use CentOS on a VM. I dislike Ubuntu, but it's the only distribution that has good fonts.
- lorenzhs 11y ago
  The infinality patches make fonts look awesome on any distro, can be a bit of a pain to get working properly but I find it worth it.