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The Arch Linux install on my ThinkPad X230 is about twelve years old now. For most of the time it was my primary laptop, until a couple of years ago when I tur
by loudmax 4y ago
The Arch Linux install on my ThinkPad X230 is about twelve years old now. For most of the time it was my primary laptop, until a couple of years ago when I turned it into a sort of home server with built-in KVM and battery backup.
In contrast to my experience running Gentoo or Fedora, I never experienced significant breakage when doing a system update. Having said that, I've always run a fairly minimal desktop environment and I've been conservative with wifi and audio software. So maybe I wasn't pushing it very hard, but still full credit to Arch for having a rock solid foundation.
- orangepurple 4y agoI push my Arch installs hard. I install a large number of applications. I even have Arch Linux running in a proot on my Android phone. I have had occasional breakage every 6 to 12 months. It is usually a vendored binary that depends on an older version of some library. And that library changed its ABI upon a minor version upgrade. Arch has packages for old major versions of libraries. For example Telegram Desktop and Ungoogled Chromium can break, but rarely. Breakage is resolved within days on stable.