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My general experience with Arch is that the up-to-date-ness is a double-edged sword, and you some times hit new bugs or incompatabilities. If it happens in nix

My general experience with Arch is that the up-to-date-ness is a double-edged sword, and you some times hit new bugs or incompatabilities. If it happens in nix i can simply just revert - you can select which OS build version you want to boot at startup - and wait a few days. And for my eGPU setup it also gives me a lot more confidence to tinker and reboot - the barrier for me to do so is a lot lower when I know i can simply boot an older build of my OS instead of having to whip out the arch installer USB and arch-chroot into my root drive to fix a bricked install that no longer boots.

aitchnyu 2y ago
There is a Utopia of rolling release and Snapper/Btrfs which takes a snapshot of / each time you use your package manager so you can roll back. But SpiralLinux(can be Sid based, Snapper OOTB) was infuriating with my Nvidia/5k screen and Cachy(Arch based with Calamares) didnt install. I'm too lazy to do it with a major distro and I download prebuilt debs/rpms and dont want to fight Opensuse Leap which invented Snapper.