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>been a happy Arch Linux user for many years >how long have you managed to keep your system running smoothly without needing to reinstall? I'm baffled as to h

by nvy 2y ago

>been a happy Arch Linux user for many years >how long have you managed to keep your system running smoothly without needing to reinstall? I'm baffled as to how someone could be a happy user of a system that requires regular reinstalls to be usable/stable. Is it that installing Arch is itself a hobby for some people?

bediger4000 2y ago
I've used Arch for about 10 years now, and I haven't done a reinstall ever. I've moved to new hardware (laptops and servers) several times over the years, so I've done fresh installs on the new hardware. Does that count? > a system that requires regular reinstalls to be usable/stable. Windows 95, 98 and XP were like that, no? Those have been the standard business operating system over the years.
- nvy 2y ago
  >Windows 95, 98 and XP were like that, no? I'm not sure that being on par with a 30-year old operating system is much of an accolade. Windows sucked back then, it's just that it sucked less than DOS.
  - bediger4000 2y ago
    I've used Arch since 2012 or 2013 and never done a reinstall. I'm just mentioning that amazingly popular Standard Business Operating Systems, that virtually everyone used, loved and defended, were like that. Arch, in my experience, is not like that.
    - nvy 2y ago
      > that virtually everyone used, loved and defended, were like that Were you actually using Windows back in those days? Absolutely nobody loved or defended them. We used them because we had to, not because they were good.
pritambaral 2y ago
I installed Arch once, back in 2012, on my first laptop, which was the only computer I had back then. When that laptop died I swapped the HDD into a loaner from a friend, only to swap it into a new laptop I bought a few months later. When I grew tired of the HDD's speed, and could afford to, I bought a SATA SSD and cloned the HDD onto it. When I upgraded to a more powerful laptop a few years ago, it didn't come with a SATA bay, so I cloned the SSD from my old laptop onto the NVMe SSD of the new one. Today, I run both laptops; the old one as a home server and backup and the new one as my main computer. Both run Arch on Wayland and KDE 6. The same Arch I installed back in 2012 with KDE 3.

by nvy 2y ago

bediger4000 2y ago

I've used Arch for about 10 years now, and I haven't done a reinstall ever. I've moved to new hardware (laptops and servers) several times over the years, so I've done fresh installs on the new hardware. Does that count? > a system that requires regular reinstalls to be usable/stable. Windows 95, 98 and XP were like that, no? Those have been the standard business operating system over the years.

nvy 2y ago
>Windows 95, 98 and XP were like that, no? I'm not sure that being on par with a 30-year old operating system is much of an accolade. Windows sucked back then, it's just that it sucked less than DOS.
- bediger4000 2y ago
  I've used Arch since 2012 or 2013 and never done a reinstall. I'm just mentioning that amazingly popular Standard Business Operating Systems, that virtually everyone used, loved and defended, were like that. Arch, in my experience, is not like that.
  - nvy 2y ago
    > that virtually everyone used, loved and defended, were like that Were you actually using Windows back in those days? Absolutely nobody loved or defended them. We used them because we had to, not because they were good.

pritambaral 2y ago

I installed Arch once, back in 2012, on my first laptop, which was the only computer I had back then. When that laptop died I swapped the HDD into a loaner from a friend, only to swap it into a new laptop I bought a few months later. When I grew tired of the HDD's speed, and could afford to, I bought a SATA SSD and cloned the HDD onto it. When I upgraded to a more powerful laptop a few years ago, it didn't come with a SATA bay, so I cloned the SSD from my old laptop onto the NVMe SSD of the new one. Today, I run both laptops; the old one as a home server and backup and the new one as my main computer. Both run Arch on Wayland and KDE 6. The same Arch I installed back in 2012 with KDE 3.