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I've been running it for 8 years or so, and it's been fine. I have yet to need to do a reinstall on any of my computers. The rolling release has been great from
by sgtnoodle 4y ago
I've been running it for 8 years or so, and it's been fine. I have yet to need to do a reinstall on any of my computers. The rolling release has been great from a maintenance standpoint. There is the occasional problem, of course. Most recently, pipewire snuck its way in as a dependency. Not having been configured sanely, it caused some minor irritating bugs as it clashed with pulseaudio.
My newest desktop's bios do tend to mess up my boot configuration after a firmware update. Windows boots directly instead of grub. It's a 10 second fix from the command line, whether in Windows or in Linux.
- nubinetwork 4y agoI'm sure part of it for me has to be the efistub. I don't understand why anyone would want to bother with a bootloader in modern times because efi will let you pick and choose what to boot just fine without one. Clobbered bootloader is also why your system goes back to windows after an update (windows has always had issues cohabiting with other operating systems that weren't windows)
- sgtnoodle 4y agoI'm not too concerned about the details of how the kernel gets loaded into memory, whether it's the firmware or efistub or grub. I just like grub because it's familiar and has a nice menu that makes it easy to tweak options.