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> if you think the install is difficult despite the billions of user guides I've installed Arch from scratch many a time. It's not the setup, it's keeping it w
by benbristow 5y ago
> if you think the install is difficult despite the billions of user guides
I've installed Arch from scratch many a time. It's not the setup, it's keeping it working that's the interesting bit.
- Starlevel001 5y agoIn the last ~eight years of using arch I can count the number of times it's broken on one hand.
- kevincox 5y agoThis was my experience too. In that time I would have had to reinstall most LTS distros a couple of times or regular distros many times. I have heard that in-place upgrades are getting better but back in my Ubuntu days I never had luck. It seems like you are always going to slowly accumulate cruft that the installer doesn't fix.
- jcelerier 5y agoMy distro journey started with Red Hat 5.2, Mandrake, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Debian, and settled on Arch. It's by far the most stable system I've used. I managed to bork a Debian stable's dpkg two months ago, I've absolutely never been able to make pacman break.
- seanw444 5y agoI used to be a big fan of Ubuntu, up until apps just stopped working because the UI refused to function. Something something pixbuf something. Never had the issue once since taking the time to get acquainted with Arch. So glad Ubuntu broke for me. Starting with Arch taught me way more about Linux than anything, and also had a factor in starting me on the path of using Emacs, and a tiling window manager.
- sudosysgen 5y agoI've only ever broken arch once and it was totally my fault. I broke Debian and Ubuntu a lot more.