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Out of curiosity, what time investment is required for maintaining an Arch install? I've been using Arch for the past decade and other than the turbulence when
by conor- 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what time investment is required for maintaining an Arch install?
I've been using Arch for the past decade and other than the turbulence when switching over to systemd, I don't do anything other than `pacman -Syu` and can only recall exactly one time where the system broke and it was because mkinitpcio failed to run after updating a kernel and was fixed by chrooting into my system and rerunning it.
I often had more issues with Debian or other distros because of having to fight the system to install packages that were built within the past year.
- hks0 2y agoMy impression comes from the switch-to-systemd era too, but systemd was never my problem. It was that my desktop never ran as smoothly as my colleagues' Manjaro and I finally gave up. But you make me think... I should give Arch one more try before giving up!
- conor- 2y agoIt might be worth giving another try. The `archinstall` script that's a part of the installation media (even though it's not technically "supported") really makes the process of installing a lot more painless if you know what you want to set up