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Arch linux is unironically more stable than Windows 10+. Not saying it doesn't have its problems, but it has WAY less than Windows.

dtx1 5y ago
That strongly depends on "your" arch linux setup. My Sway/Wayland only system is not stable at all, but that's not what i need in a desktop/gaming setup
- dijit 5y ago
  Oh interesting. I’d love to hear more about your setup. I’m on the same stack (Sway, Arch) and it’s absolutely rock solid on a precision 5520, and has been for 4 years now. I usually reinstall every year but I haven’t this time because everything kinda just works. To be clear; I’m not doubting you but it’s wildly different than my experience and I would love to understand how to avoid this instability myself, if for instance you’re running strange kernel modules or a specific video card. What machine do you have and what is breaking?
  - dtx1 5y ago
    Well I have a thinkpad with a pretty stable setup (except suspend resume, i havent even bothered trying to get that to run well) but on my desktop system Ryzen 5600x AMD rx6600xt MSI B550M pro Zen Kernel with 3600mhz XMP Ram and auto overclock settings i get a hard crash once a month with some random MCE hardware errors, bluetooth card spams my dmesg on boot with some errors i cant be bothered to fix, firefox sometimes crashes HARD, totally freezing, games sometimes don't start, today i had a random chromium crash and then i couldnt open nemo (file manager) anymore and when i opened a shell (alacritty with fish shell) the shell wouldnt allow any input. Two reboots later and it was fixed...somehow... but honestly i dont mind its my toy system/work system from home because its so much faster than my notebooks. If I have to reboot once a day thats stable enough for that newscase
    - dijit 5y ago
      MCE Errors are nothing to do with Linux, it's the CPU reporting itself as faulty. I would check your warranty.
      - dtx1 5y ago
        nah, it propably runs fine if i don't blindly overclock it with MSIs questionable auto OC feature and it's so rare, i don't really care

dtx1 5y ago

That strongly depends on "your" arch linux setup. My Sway/Wayland only system is not stable at all, but that's not what i need in a desktop/gaming setup

dijit 5y ago
Oh interesting. I’d love to hear more about your setup. I’m on the same stack (Sway, Arch) and it’s absolutely rock solid on a precision 5520, and has been for 4 years now. I usually reinstall every year but I haven’t this time because everything kinda just works. To be clear; I’m not doubting you but it’s wildly different than my experience and I would love to understand how to avoid this instability myself, if for instance you’re running strange kernel modules or a specific video card. What machine do you have and what is breaking?
- dtx1 5y ago
  Well I have a thinkpad with a pretty stable setup (except suspend resume, i havent even bothered trying to get that to run well) but on my desktop system Ryzen 5600x AMD rx6600xt MSI B550M pro Zen Kernel with 3600mhz XMP Ram and auto overclock settings i get a hard crash once a month with some random MCE hardware errors, bluetooth card spams my dmesg on boot with some errors i cant be bothered to fix, firefox sometimes crashes HARD, totally freezing, games sometimes don't start, today i had a random chromium crash and then i couldnt open nemo (file manager) anymore and when i opened a shell (alacritty with fish shell) the shell wouldnt allow any input. Two reboots later and it was fixed...somehow... but honestly i dont mind its my toy system/work system from home because its so much faster than my notebooks. If I have to reboot once a day thats stable enough for that newscase
  - dijit 5y ago
    MCE Errors are nothing to do with Linux, it's the CPU reporting itself as faulty. I would check your warranty.
    - dtx1 5y ago
      nah, it propably runs fine if i don't blindly overclock it with MSIs questionable auto OC feature and it's so rare, i don't really care