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I've been running Arch Linux for many, many years now on three or four machines at the same time. I've never had anything break, unlike in Ubuntu. (Constant Ub
by otabdeveloper4 6y ago
I've been running Arch Linux for many, many years now on three or four machines at the same time.
I've never had anything break, unlike in Ubuntu. (Constant Ubuntu breakages were the thing that drove me to Arch in the first place.)
Arch Linux is basically "default upstream Linux", which means less random patches and stuff built on top of it.
- Fnoord 6y agoI call bullshit. You're doing something wrong on your Ubuntu installation. I run an Arch installation on my desktop. I mainly run Ubuntu on it (an artifact from a time where Ubuntu replaced Debian as my main Linux OS). Every once in a while, I boot to Arch to play around with it (to learn about the hype; there's a few things I like about Arch Linux. AUR is large, wiki documentation is ace). And, practically every time I boot into it, I got stuff to fix... unlike Ubuntu. On Ubuntu I get security and reliability fixes, and every time I upgrade to a next version I got stuff to fix; ie. every half a year, if I upgrade to next release and decide to not stick on a LTS version. With LTS it is rock stable for years to come, at the sacrifice of not being able to run the latest and the greatest version of software.
- otabdeveloper4 6y ago> ...and every time I upgrade to a next version I got stuff to fix Yeah, exactly. This is everyone's experience. > And, practically every time I boot into it, I got stuff to fix... But this isn't, you're definitely doing something very wrong.
- Fnoord 6y agoEvery OS with a development branch (-CURRENT, -git, unstable, or rolling release) suffers from this, yet when it comes to Arch, I'm doing something very wrong.