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To name a few: when systemd was introduced; when there were changes made to the file structure (moving everything to /usr); when kde4 was replaced with kde5
by bbv-if 9y ago
To name a few:
when systemd was introduced;
when there were changes made to the file structure (moving everything to /usr);
when kde4 was replaced with kde5.
And there were more issues, I just don't remember all of them.
Reading the news before the update could have helped sometimes but I don't do that every time I execute `pacman -Syu` for various reasons; and sometimes problems are unexpected or just bugs fixed on the next update.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI will second this, I faced these exact same issues, for the same reasons. If you don't subscribe to the Arch news feed, you're taking a chance on every upgrade, that your system will not boot correctly.
- zdkl 9y agoYeah but that's the point of Arch: teaching new blood to RTFM when it's patchday. You can trivially fubar an arch install by updating your base install+user additions if you're not in the loop with the releases of whatever you installed.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThat also makes it a bad distro to choose unless you want to be a hardcore sysadmin and micromanage your personal system. That's generally what distro maintainers are supposed to minimize for the end users. I see people recommending Arch for newbies, who maybe just want to dip their toes. They're figuratively thrown into the deep end, and I just don't think that's a particularly good idea for most people.
- zdkl 9y agoYeah if you're looking for easy and risk free, yiu should stay with windows or mac. OTOH, if you want linux to stop being a black box, install arch. Just don't expect it to be your stable day to day workhorse with no effort.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI used Arch for ~9 years. I like it, but it absolutely isn't a good beginner distro, nor a good distro for people who just want to get on with life. Mint (or Ubuntu) is a perfectly good alternative to Windows or Mac OS for an easy and "risk free" experience. Most people are perfectly satisfied with a black box OS. Not that Mint has to be a black box at all. There's plenty of room for hacking around, if you're into that.
- bbv-if 9y agoFor me, a simple alert "Hey, this update can break things, do you know what you're doing?" in case of a risky update would be enough.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoWhich is what Mint does by default. It shows the update, but doesn't select it automatically.