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clearly not an arch user
by shepherdjerred 6y ago
clearly not an arch user
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoArch doesn't force auto-updates, so ... try again?
- p_l 6y agobut it does brick Been there, done that, didn't get a T-shirt but a lot of scorn from IRC
- josephcsible 6y agoThe point is that it won't brick unless the sysadmin does something. Windows will occasionally brick itself with no user interaction.
- foxrider 6y agoYeah, but then it is supposed to - you are expected to have knowledge to fix it as a user. And unlike proprietary OSes it gives you legible errors and great logging/debugging tools and a path to downgrade. Last time I had to help my friend troubleshoot his Windows setup all we would get would be an extremely cryptic error code and we solved it by finding a thread on an Italian forum and had to google translate a solution that consisted of creating an arbitrary entry in Windows registry. This is not comparable.
- est31 6y agoI think the difference is not between legible errors vs none, but how many people who deeply understand computers are in the community. So a community difference instead of a technical one. In Windows land, most folks don't understand it, so most you'll find on the internet is "I reinstalled windows, the problem is gone" and "try Pro Cleaner ^TM 2000, the trial version has some ads but it removed the problem for me. requires E-Mail signup though".
- snazz 6y agoWindows is also far more difficult to debug in the first place. macOS has stuff like the defaults command in the Terminal and verbose mode that give power users the tools to debug issues. Even if the Mac-using community isn't super tech-savvy on average, the architecture of macOS means that you're left with "Something went wrong; please try again later" far less often.
- freshhawk 6y agoThat's the distro with the giant text on the website saying it's a bleeding edge rolling release distro right?