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Not who you're replying to but I'm sorry, he's right. The GRUB incident last summer was the last straw for me. I found myself with an unbootable system. The
by wing-_-nuts 3y ago
Not who you're replying to but I'm sorry, he's right.
The GRUB incident last summer was the last straw for me. I found myself with an unbootable system. The r/arch sub was radio silent. r/EndevourOs posted a sticky about the grub issue. On researching it more, they were using a build of grub off master (not even a release!). When I asked an arch dev if he thought it was appropriate to do that given he'd just left thousands of people without a bootable system, he dismissed me with something to the effect of 'If you can't repair your bootloader maybe you should use an easier distribution'
You know what? I agreed with him. I formatted my laptop and installed PopOs and it's been really nice running a system where the devs actually seem to care about stability.
- unsungNovelty 3y agoOh no. I am sorry that happened to you. My experience have been pleasant from the community. But I understand that might not be everyone's experience. Might I suggest setting up timeshift or other things like BTRFS which have rolling back features? I never have to use it in my 5+ years old arch install, but I have used it once while using Manjaro (Arch derivative). If your system breaks, I just use Linux Mint live boot and revert it back to last working state from Linux Mint which bundles timeshift. And you just wait for a fix before you update again. I suggest this because my experience has been that point releases creates problems in the long term and hence is not without issue. So this might be helpful. PS: I have heard nice things about PopOS. Hope things are fun over there. :)